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Kanji Detail for 椀 - "bowl"

椀

  • Meaning

    椀 means "bowl." Also associated with cup.

    1. Bowl - A wooden container for food.

    2. Cup - A small vessel for eating.

  • Four-character idioms with 椀

    • 椀飯振舞 おうばんぶるまい Listen lavish feast; splendid banquet; corporate largess

  • Tattoo check: 椀

    • Verified meaning: bowl
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Also carries these associations: cup

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    wooden or lacquered bowl

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bowl; cup; dish

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 碗[wan3]

  • Onyomi

    tip

    wan(ワン) ワン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hachi(はち) はち

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    bowl cup vessel container lacquerware soup rice japanese tableware serving dining round deep traditional wooden utensil

Sentences including 椀

  • Ladle the soup into everyone's bowl.

  • I'm so jealous of your bowl-shaped boobs.

  • The soup in the bowl was very delicious.

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