Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 瓮

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earthen jar; jar for ashes
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 4 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading wèng Cantonese reading ung3
Japanese on reading ou Japanese kun reading motai
Korean reading ong Vietnamese reading
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ wèng ]    surname Weng
   [ wèng ]    pottery container for water, wine etc
   [ wèng zhōng zhī biē ]    lit. like a turtle in a jar, to be trapped (idiom)
   [ wèng zhōng zhuō biē ]    to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); to set oneself an easy target, a turkey shoot
   [ wèng chéng ]    enceinte of a city gate, barbican entrance to a city
   [ wèng ān ]    Wengan county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qian2 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
   [ wèng ān xiàn ]    Wengan county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qian2 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou
   [ wèng guān ]    funerary urn
   [ wèng guān zàng ]    urn burial
   [ wèng shēng wèng ]    to speak in a low muffled voice (idiom)
   [ wèng caì ]    variant of 蕹菜[weng4 cai4]
   [ wèng ]    variant of 甕|瓮[weng4]
⇒    [ haǒ jiǔ chén wèng ]    lit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom), fig. the best is saved for last
⇒    [ wèng shēng wèng ]    to speak in a low muffled voice (idiom)
⇒    [ péng wèng yoǔ ]    thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom); poor person's house, humble home
⇒    [ qǐng jūn wèng ]    lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom), fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine

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