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tile 瓦
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Used in these characters:
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瓶
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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| bottle, vase, pitcher, jar
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Left: unite 并 (When you are coming out 丷 of a buddhist temple 开 you shall be united.) [开 = image of a temple's entrance gate with double upper traverses, which actually means "open", as these gates have no doors], right: roof tile 瓦 (interhooked tiles)
(The roof tiles are generalized understood as "pottery") For making sth. 'uniting' (= a container) the pottery is formed into a bottle or pitcher. |
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瓦
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| roof tile, watt (electr.)
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Image of overlapping roof tiles and locked by a nail
Interlocked by a hook: two roof tiles. |
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瓷
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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| porcelain, chinaware, china
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Top: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠 [=yawning person], what comes next?), below: roof tile 瓦.
The next roof tile is made of porcelain. |
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瓮
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JLPT no HSK |
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| earthen jar, pottery container for water/wine, urn
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Top: public 公 (eight 八 noses 厶 form public), bottom: roof tile 瓦 (image of interhooked tiles; here: symbol for earthenware)
It is for the 'eight noses' and earthenware: the jar. |
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甄
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JLPT no HSK |
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| to evaluate, to examine, to distinguish, grade, select
zhēn
瓦
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Left: 垔 (west 覀/西 and earth 土), right: tile 瓦 (image of interhooked tiles; here: symbol for earthenware)
In the west the earth for the tiles is evaluated. |
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