钵 — Chinese character
钵
bō
earthen basin; alms bowl
- Pinyin
- bō
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 钅 本
- Formation
- pictophonetic — gold; meaning component 钅; sound component 本
- Traditional
- 缽 鉢
Common words with 钵
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 衣钵 (衣缽) | yī bō | the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism); legacy |
| 研钵 (研缽) | yán bō | mortar (bowl for grinding with pestle) |
| 钵盂 (缽盂) | bō yú | alms bowl |
| 钵头 (缽頭) | bō tóu | earthen bowl (Shanghainese) |
| 继承衣钵 (繼承衣缽) | jì chéng yī bō | to take up sb's mantle; to follow in sb's steps |
| 乳钵 (乳缽) | rǔ bō | small mortar used for grinding medicines into a powder (TCM) |
| 托钵修会 (托缽修會) | tuō bō xiū huì | mendicant religious order in Catholicism; Franciscan order |
| 盆钵 (盆缽) | pén bō | generic term for pottery |
| 金钵 (金缽) | jīn bō | (gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.