鉢

鉢

See also: 缽 and 钵

鉢 U+9262, 鉢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9262 ← 鉡 [U+9261] CJK Unified Ideographs 鉣 → [U+9263]

Translingual

Traditional	缽
Shinjitai	鉢
Simplified	钵

Han character

鉢 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金木一 (CDM), composition ⿰釒本)

1. earthenware basin
2. alms bowl (Sanskrit पात्र (pātra))

References

• KangXi: page 1302, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40317
• Dae Jaweon: page 1804, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4183, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9262

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (本) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
本	*pɯːnʔ
笨	*pɯːnʔ, *bɯːnʔ
苯	*pɯːnʔ
翉	*pʰɯːnʔ
体	*bɯːnʔ
鉢	*poːd
缽	*poːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *poːd) : semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 本 (OC *pɯːnʔ)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 鉢 – see 缽 (“monk's alms bowl; bowl; basin; pot”). (This character, 鉢, is a variant form of 缽.)

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Japanese

Kanji

鉢

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. bowl; pot
2. skull; cranium

Readings

• Go-on: はち (hachi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: はつ (hatsu, Jōyō ^†)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鉢
はち Grade: S
on’yomi

From Sanskrit पात्र /pātra/ through Chinese.

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) はち​ [hàchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠t͡ɕi]

Noun

鉢(はち) • (hachi) 

1. bowl, pot

Derived terms

• 植木鉢(うえきばち) (uekibachi): flowerpot
• 金魚鉢(きんぎょばち) (kingyobachi): goldfish bowl
• 擂鉢(すりばち) (suribachi): mortar (bowl)
• 鉢植(はちう)え (hachiue): potted plant
• 火鉢(ひばち) (hibachi): A charcoal-powered heating brazier

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

鉢 • (bal) (hangeul 발, revised bal, McCune–Reischauer pal, Yale pal)

1. (바리때 발, barittae-): bowl (perhaps originally, Buddhist alms bowl)

Compounds

• 沙鉢 (사발, sabal) porcelain bowl
• 周鉢 (주발, jubal) brass bowl

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Vietnamese

Han character

鉢: Hán Nôm readings: bát

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