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  *锅* | 锅* | *锅
pot; pan; wok; cauldron / pot-shaped thing / CL: , 隻|只
HSK 5
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
hotpot / (basketball) a blocked shot; a block
HSK 7-9
(lit.) a pot of porridge / (fig.) a complete mess
HSK 7-9
steamer
twice-cooked pork
trivet / pot-holder
frying pan
to hunch one's back (coll.) / a hunchback
fried dumpling / potsticker
pressure cooker (Tw)
iron cooking pot
wok spatula; cooking spatula
(like) a cat on a hot tin roof / anxious / agitated
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
a deep fryer
large round baked wheat pancake
to season a wok / to take the lid off a pot / (of the contents of a pot) to start to boil / (fig.) to become rowdy
budae jjigae, a type of Korean stew
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
pot; pan; wok; cauldron / pot-shaped thing / hotpot
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
casserole / earthenware pot
saucepan lid / (satellite) dish
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
stew pot / stew pan / saucepan
wok / frying pan
kitchen utensils (literary)
a still (for distilling alcohol)
top of a kitchen range
erguotou (sorghum liquor)
to be unable to afford food
steamer (for cooking)
to cook again / to rewarm food
pan
a big wok / cauldron
portable steam engine
dish containing a variety of meats and vegetables arranged in a broth in a clay pot / chafing dish
stove / cooking burner
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
to fail
variant of 砂鍋|砂锅
(neologism c. 2017) to shift the blame; to pass the buck
frying pan
(Tw) electric rice cooker
pressure cooker
non-stick pan
air fryer
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅) to carry the can; to be a scapegoat
the bottom of a pot or pan / hotpot broth
pressure cooker
lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) / fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
to go to the bottom of things (idiom)
bowl cut (hairstyle)
shabu-shabu (loanword) / Japanese hot pot
boiler
"mandarin ducks" pot (hot pot with a divider, containing spicy soup on one side, mild soup on the other)
to put into the pot (to cook)
cooking pot
fondue
hot pot / a dish where thinly sliced meat and vegetables are boiled briefly in a broth and then served with dipping sauces
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
claypot (used in cooking)
to be made a scapegoat; to be unjustly blamed
dry pot, a type of dish in which ingredients are wok-fried, then served hot in a clay pot or on a metal pan
reused cooking oil
nabeyaki egg noodles
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
one ladle (of sth bad) spoils the (whole) pot (idiom) / one bad apple spoils the barrel
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter cauldrons of boiling oil (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations
don't act until the time is ripe (idiom)
non-stick pan (Tw)
(dialect) to set up separate households / (sports etc) to analyze the reasons for a defeat
(chemical engineering) reaction vessel; reaction tank
colander / strainer / sieve / leaky pot
colander
fryer
(of food) to burst out of the pot / (fig.) to be in an uproar
coal burning boiler
to casserole / to stew / vacuum flask / cooker
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
erhua variant of 羅鍋|罗锅
a humpback bridge
hot pot containing stinky tofu and other ingredients (Taiwanese dish)
to block a shot (basketball)
tinker / artisan who fixes leaky pots


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