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瓮

wèng

Character Traditional 甕

What 瓮 means

1. pottery container for water, wine etc

Other readings

瓮 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Wèngsurname Weng
• wèngvariant of {瓮|wèng}; earthen jar; urn
• wèngvariant of {瓮|wèng}

Example sentences

• 祖母的骨灰是在骨灰瓮在寺院。
  Zǔmǔ de gǔhuī shì zài gǔhuī wèng zài sìyuàn.
  Grandmother's ashes are in an urn at the temple.
• 祖母的骨灰在寺院的骨灰瓮里。
  Grandmother's ashes are in an urn at the temple.

Words starting with 瓮

• 瓮城wèng chéngenceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city
• 瓮棺wèng guānfunerary urn
• 瓮安县Wèng ān XiànWeng'an, a county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔南布依族苗族自治州
• 瓮棺葬wèng guān zàngurn burial
• 瓮声瓮气wèng shēng wèng qìto speak in a low muffled voice (idiom)
• 瓮中之鳖wèng zhōng zhī biēlit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom)
• 瓮中捉鳖wèng zhōng zhuō biē(lit.) to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); (fig.) to go after easy prey
• 瓮安Wèng ānsee 瓮安县
• 瓮菜wèng càivariant of 蕹菜

Words containing 瓮

• 请君入瓮qǐng jūn rù wènglit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom); fig. to give sb a taste of his own…
• 好酒沉瓮底hǎo jiǔ chén wèng dǐlit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom); fig. the best is saved for last
• 蓬户瓮牖péng hù wèng yǒuthatched house, broken urn windows (idiom); poor person's house; humble home

Characters that look like 瓮

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

• 变biànto change; to become different; to transform
• 觉juéto feel; to find that; thinking
• 览lǎnto look at; to view; to read
• 宪xiànstatute; constitution
• 叟sǒuold gentleman; old man
• 茔yíng(literary) a grave

Sounds the same

Read wèng, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• 齆stuffy (nose); nasal (voice)