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钵

bō

Character Traditional 缽

What 钵 means

1. small earthenware plate or basin
2. a monk's alms bowl
3. Sanskrit paatra

Other readings

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

• bōvariant of {钵|bō}

Words starting with 钵

• 钵头bō tóuearthen bowl (Shanghainese)
• 钵盂bō yúalms bowl

Words containing 钵

• 衣钵yī bōthe cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple…
• 乳钵rǔ bōsmall mortar used for grinding medicines into a powder (TCM)
• 盆钵pén bōgeneric term for pottery
• 研钵yán bōmortar (bowl for grinding with pestle)
• 金钵jīn bō(gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk)
• 托钵修会tuō bō xiū huìmendicant religious order in Catholicism; Franciscan order
• 继承衣钵jì chéng yī bōto take up sb's mantle; to follow in sb's steps
• 墨尔钵Mò ěr bōsee 墨尔本

Characters that look like 钵

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

• 铎duólarge ancient bell
• 铢zhūtwenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
• 铵ǎnammonium
• 馀Yúsurname Yu
• 钜jù(literary) hard iron; (literary) hook; barb; used in personal names and place names
• 铱yīiridium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read bō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 播(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 波wave; ripple; storm
• 剥to peel; to skin; to flay
• 拨to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 般used in 般若
• 啵(onomatopoeia) to bubble
• 菠spinach
• 砵alms bowl
• 盋obscure variant of 钵
• 饽cake; biscuit
• 嶓name of a mountain
• 癶Kangxi radical 105, known as 登字头