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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *碗* | 碗* | *碗
bowl / cup / CL: 隻|只, 個|个
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扣* | 扣* | *扣
to fasten / to button / button / buckle / knot / to arrest / to confiscate / to deduct (money) / discount / to knock / to smash, spike or dunk (a ball) / to cover (with a bowl etc) / (fig.) to tag a label on sb / (Tw) (loanword) code
HSK 6
chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl
HSK 7-9
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *豆* | 豆* | *豆
legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗,) / (old) stemmed cup or bowl
to convince / to subdue / to be convinced / to be bowled over
treasure bowl (mythology) / fig. source of wealth / cornucopia / gold mine
the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism) / legacy / mantle
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缽* | 缽* | *缽
small earthenware plate or basin / a monk's alms bowl / Sanskrit paatra
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丼* | 丼* | *丼
(Tw) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
(Tw) very large bowl
to penetrate; to break into (a market, social group etc); to infiltrate (enemy ranks etc) / to banish to; to relegate to / to insert; to inject / to crack (an egg) into (a bowl etc)
mortar (bowl for grinding with pestle)
to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth
to fill a bowl with rice
to inscribe a poem (often, composed on the spot) on a painting, fan or ceramic bowl etc as a work of calligraphy / an inscribed poem
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甌* | 甌* | *甌
(pottery) bowl or drinking vessel
secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *砵* | 砵* | *砵
alms bowl
bowl and chopsticks / tableware
lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom) / fig. to be impartial
soup bowl
Super Cup (various sports) / Super Bowl (American football championship game)
(coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly)
alms bowl
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杅* | 杅* | *杅
bowl / tub
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *釪* | 釪* | *釪
an alms bowl / a small bell
earthen bowl (Shanghainese)
bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey / fig. greedy exploiter / rapacious aggressor
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棬* | 棬* | *棬
bowl
lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife
drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife) / fig. grief for a lost wife
porcelain bowl
a cake of tea, commonly Pu'er tea 普洱茶, compacted into a bowl or nest shape / dome shaped tea-brick / caked tea
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *釭* | 釭* | *釭
hanging bowl for lamp or fish
very large bowl
Super Bowl (American football championship game)
bowl cut (hairstyle)
chawanmushi, Japanese savory egg custard dish that is steamed and served in a small bowl
pet food bowl / dog bowl
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
(of a bowl, a cup etc) to be brought up to one's mouth
(sports) (cricket) to bowl a batsman out
lit. to eat meat from one's bowl, then put down one's chopsticks and scold one's mother (idiom) / fig. to complain despite being privileged / to be ungrateful for what one has been given
Super Cup (various sports) / Super Bowl (American football championship game)
(gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk)
pottery bowl


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