锅

guo̅ = gu + o1

pot; pan; wok; cauldron / pot-shaped thing / CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]

锅 = 呙 + 钅 : Gitta Giraffe (gu) wants to cook some food in front of the observatory (o1). She has a pot (锅), but not a fireplace, so she quickly makes a fire and uses three golden harpoons (钅) to provide a base for her pot. The three golden harpoons stick with very different angles in the earth, so the pot sits on the fire very lopsided (呙).

锅 character breakdown

锅
- 呙
  - 内
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
    - 冂
      - 丨
      - ㇆
        
        一
        
        亅
    - ⺆
      - 丿
      - ㇆
        
        一
        
        亅
  - 口
- 钅

guo̅ = gu + o1

surname Guo

wa̅i = w + ai1

lopsided / Taiwan pr. [kuai1]

呙 = 内 + 口 : Willy Walrus (w) has been accused of stealing two mandarins (口) in front of the airplane (ai1). He refuses to open his bag, so the arriving police has to put him into a CT (内) to see into (内) his bag. On the CT screen they see Willy Walrus and two lopsided (呙) mandarins in his bag.

Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.

Characters with 锅 as component

锅 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 锅

(lit.) a pot of porridge / (fig.) a complete mess

see 連鍋端|连锅端[lian2 guo1 duan1]

erguotou (sorghum liquor)

see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1]

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

lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance

,

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

,

see 吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡|吃着碗里，看着锅里[chi1 zhe5 wan3 li3 , kan4 zhe5 guo1 li3]

to cook again / to rewarm food

reused cooking oil

twice-cooked pork

a big wok / cauldron

dish containing a variety of meats and vegetables arranged in a broth in a clay pot / chafing dish

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

Sentences with 锅

锅 currently does not appear in any sentence.