pot / classifier for bottled liquid

= + + : The bachelor (士) invited Helga Horse (hu) to come over for dinner just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). Everything is perfect until he pours Helga wine from a wine pot (壶) and a bullfrog (业) jumps out of the wine. The bachelor is so embarrassed and angry that he sends the bullfrog flying through the space station by beating it with a cooking top (冖).

壺 character breakdown

Asia / Asian / Taiwan pr. [Ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
second / next to / inferior / sub- / Taiwan pr. [ya3]

= + : What is Asia famous for? Many people will say for its food. Let's say that 亚 is for 麻婆豆腐. Maud Younger is eating a plate of Mapo Doufu in the ashram's bathroom, when a bullfrog steals the plate by snatching it away with his tongue. His punishment follows at once by Maud Younger beating him over the head with a flute.
"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.

Characters with 壺 as component

壺 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 壺

kettle / canteen / watering can
coffee pot / coffee maker
bed urinal / chamber pot
watering can / sprinkling can
kettlebell, girya
Huguan county in Changzhi 長治|长治[Chang2 zhi4], Shanxi
Huguan county in Changzhi 長治|长治[Chang2 zhi4], Shanxi
jade ice jug and autumn moon (idiom, from poem by Song writer Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡); fig. spotless white and pure / flawless person
unidentified type of bird referred to in ancient Chinese poems
(literary) to practice medicine / to work as a pharmacist
practice medicine or pharmacy to help the people or public
ancient banquet game of throwing arrows into a pot, the winner determined by the number of arrows thrown in, and the loser required to drink as punishment
pelican / same as 鵜鶘|鹈鹕
pelican / same as 鵜鶘|鹈鹕
vacuum flask / thermos flask
jade pot for cold water / curling (sport) / curling puck
lit. mention the pot that doesn't boil (idiom); to touch a sore spot / to talk about sb's weak point

Sentences with 壺

壺 currently does not appear in any sentence.