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埚

guō

Character Traditional 堝

What 埚 means

1. crucible

Words containing 埚

• 坩埚gān guōcrucible

Characters built on 呙

These share the phonetic component 呙 (wāi), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 祸huòdisaster; misfortune; calamity
• 锅guōpot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
• 涡guōname of a river

Characters that look like 埚

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 骑qíto sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
• 烯xīalkene
• 绵miánsilk floss; continuous; soft
• 绸chóu(light) silk
• 绢juànthin, tough silk fabric
• 绮qǐbeautiful; open-work silk

Sounds the same

Read guō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 锅pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
• 郭outer city wall
• 涡name of a river
• 聒raucous; clamor; unpleasantly noisy
• 蝈small green cicada or frog (meaning unclear, possibly onom.)…
• 啯sound of swallowing; croak
• 崞name of a mountain
• 𭚦(literary) to draw one's bow to the full; Taiwan pr. kuò
• 过surname Guo
• 呙surname Guo
• 彉variant of 彍