瓮 — Chinese character
瓮
wèng
urn, earthen jar
- Pinyin
- wèng
- Radical
- 98 ⽡ (Tile)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 公 瓦
- Formation
- pictophonetic — pottery; meaning component 瓦; sound component 公
- Japanese
- 瓮 as a kanji
Common words with 瓮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 瓮城 (甕城) | wèng chéng | enceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city |
| 瓮中之鳖 (甕中之鱉) | wèng zhōng zhī biē | lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom) |
| 瓮中捉鳖 (甕中捉鱉) | wèng zhōng zhuō biē | (lit.) to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); (fig.) to go after easy prey |
| 请君入瓮 (請君入甕) | qǐng jūn rù wèng | lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom); fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine |
| 瓮棺 (甕棺) | wèng guān | funerary urn |
| 瓮棺葬 (甕棺葬) | wèng guān zàng | urn burial |
| 瓮声瓮气 (甕聲甕氣) | wèng shēng wèng qì | to speak in a low muffled voice (idiom) |
| 瓮菜 (甕菜) | wèng cài | variant of 蕹菜 (wèng cài) |
| 蓬户瓮牖 (蓬戶甕牖) | péng hù wèng yǒu | thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom); poor person's house; humble home |
English words written with 瓮
瓮 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1
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