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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *碗* | 碗* | *碗
bowl / cup / CL: 隻|只, 個|个
HSK 2
to convince / to subdue / to be convinced / to be bowled over
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *豆* | 豆* | *豆
legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗,) / (old) stemmed cup or bowl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
Super Bowl (American football championship game)
bowl and chopsticks / tableware
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
chamber pot / wooden pan used as toilet / toilet bowl
HSK 7-9
porcelain bowl
to fill a bowl with rice
(coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly)
secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *缽* | 缽* | *缽
small earthenware plate or basin / a monk's alms bowl / Sanskrit paatra
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)
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism) / legacy / mantle
to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甌* | 甌* | *甌
(pottery) bowl or drinking vessel
Super Cup (various sports) / Super Bowl (American football championship game)
(gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk)
a cake of tea, commonly Pu'er tea 普洱茶, compacted into a bowl or nest shape / dome shaped tea-brick / caked tea
bowl cut (hairstyle)
lit. to drum on a bowl / refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife / fig. grief for a lost wife
mortar (bowl for grinding with pestle)
soup bowl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *丼* | 丼* | *丼
(Tw) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
Super Cup (various sports) / Super Bowl (American football championship game)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *棬* | 棬* | *棬
bowl
very large bowl
chawanmushi, Japanese savory egg custard dish that is steamed and served in a small bowl
lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom) / fig. to be impartial
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *砵* | 砵* | *砵
alms bowl
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
(of a bowl, a cup etc) to be brought up to one's mouth
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
treasure bowl (mythology) / fig. source of wealth / cornucopia / gold mine
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *杅* | 杅* | *杅
bowl / tub
(sports) (cricket) to bowl a batsman out
earthen bowl (Shanghainese)
bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey / fig. greedy exploiter / rapacious aggressor
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *釪* | 釪* | *釪
an alms bowl / a small bell
pet food bowl / dog bowl
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
alms bowl
(Tw) very large bowl
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *釭* | 釭* | *釭
hanging bowl for lamp or fish
pottery bowl


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