釜 — Chinese character
釜
fǔ
cauldron, kettle, pot
- Pinyin
- fǔ
- Radical
- 167 ⾦ (Gold)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 父 金
- Formation
- pictophonetic — metal; meaning component 金; sound component 父
- Japanese
- 釜 as a kanji
Common words with 釜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破釜沉舟 | pò fǔ chén zhōu | lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat; to burn one's boats |
| 釜底抽薪 | fǔ dǐ chōu xīn | to take drastic measures to deal with a situation; to pull the carpet from under sb |
| 加压釜 (加壓釜) | jiā yā fǔ | pressure chamber; pressurized cauldron |
| 大釜 | dà fǔ | cauldron |
| 釜底游鱼 (釜底游魚) | fǔ dǐ yóu yú | a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom); in a desperate situation |
釜 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 2
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.
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