Memory phrase for the character: 钵

钵

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Meaning

small earthenware plate or basin, a monk's alms bowl

Pronunciation

bō

Explanation

 Left: metal 钅/金, right: root, origin 本 (The tree 木 comes out of the roots 一 as origin and becomes a book)

Mnemonic
 
Metal can originally be used for: (alm) bowls.

Radicals

金 gold, metalThis radical is always on the left side of a character.
本 root (of plants), origin




 Vocabulary

衣钵 yī bō  the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism); legacy; mantle
金钵 jīn bō  (gold) alms bowl (of a Buddhist monk)
钵头 bō tóu  earthen bowl (Shanghainese)
钵头 bō tóu  

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