jar / vat / classifier for loads of laundry / CL:口[kou3]

缸 character breakdown

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.
pottery

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is showing off his art skills right in the middle of the outhouse (ou3). He prepared some pottery (缶) to look at, but that's not all: when the bell tolls at noon, he takes a fork (山) and eats his pottery for lunch (午) as the central element of his art performance.

Characters with 缸 as component

缸 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 缸

cylinder (of steam engine or internal combustion engine)
cylinder (engine)
wine jar / (dialect) drinking house
big dyeing vat / (fig.) corrupting environment

Sentences with 缸

缸 currently does not appear in any sentence.