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釜

fǔ

Character

What 釜 means

1. kettle
2. cauldron

Example sentences

• 釜底游鱼。
  Fǔdǐyóuyú.
  A fish out of water.

Words starting with 釜

• 釜山Fǔ shānBusan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 庆尚南道
• 釜山市Fǔ shān shìBusan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 庆尚南道
• 釜底抽薪fǔ dǐ chōu xīnto take drastic measures to deal with a situation; to pull the carpet from under sb
• 釜底游鱼fǔ dǐ yóu yúa fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom); in a desperate situation
• 釜山广域市Fǔ shān guǎng yù shìBusan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 庆尚南道

Words containing 釜

• 破釜沉舟pò fǔ chén zhōulit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom)…
• 大釜dà fǔcauldron
• 加压釜jiā yā fǔpressure chamber; pressurized cauldron
• 黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣huáng zhōng huǐ qì wǎ fǔ léi mínglit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells…

Characters that look like 釜

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

• 查cháto research; to check; to investigate
• 亲qīnparent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative
• 蛋dànegg; oval-shaped thing
• 羞xiūshy; ashamed; shame
• 奎kuícrotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
• 菱líng(bound form) water caltrop (Trapa species)

Sounds the same

Read fǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 府seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence
• 腐decay; rotten
• 辅to assist; to complement; auxiliary
• 抚to comfort; to console; to stroke
• 俯to look down; to stoop
• 甫(classical) barely; just; just now
• 斧hatchet
• 腑internal organs
• 脯dried meat; preserved fruit
• 呒perplexed; astonished
• 拊pat
• 滏name of a river in Hebei