The Radical: 皿


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Meaning
bowl    皿

Explanation

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 2
basket, goal
lán
Top: bamboo , below: supervise (For the cut bamboo [= knife & half of bamboo ] is a bowl for its supervision)
Bamboo, that is supervised (= brought into shape) serves as a basket.
JLPT HSK 3
dish, plate, tray, board, to coil
pán
Top: boat/ship (rowing boat with two persons ), below: plate, bowl
It is floating like a boat or a bowl: this dish.
JLPT HSK 4
warm, temperature
wēn
Left: water , right: 昷 (sun and a bowl/plate )
The water in the sunny bowl becomes warm.
JLPT HSK 4
salt
yán
Top: 圤 (earth , fortune telling also understood as a branching), bottom: bowl
From earth it can be separated (branched off) and collected in a bowl: salt.
JLPT HSK 4
small box, case

Top: to fit (the lid on the pot ), below: bowl/plate
A fitting lid turns a bowl into a box.
JLPT HSK 5
benefit, profit, advantage, to increase

In the middle: table , with something on and below: plates/bowl
With a well-laid table and plates he (i.e. the restaurant owner) benefits.
JLPT HSK 5
lid, cover, seal, canopy
gài, gě
Top: sheep (here: sheepskin), bottom: bowl/plate
A sheepskin can be laid over a bowl, as: a lid.
JLPT HSK 5
basin, flower pot, unit of volume =128 l
pén
Top: tp divide (... with the sword in 8 pieces), below: plate dish
We divide in a dish or basin of 128 l.
JLPT HSK 6
flourishing, to contain, vigorous, prosperous
chéng, shèng
Top: achieve, become, make (in direction of halberd we will achieve it.), below: bowl
Fill up the bowls and it will be flourishing.
JLPT HSK 6
ferocious, violent, suddenly, fierce, abrupt
měng
Left: wild animal (dog on the hind legs), right: eldest brother (child , bowl/plate )
The animal has a child in its bowl: It was ferocious and violent.
JLPT HSK 6
oath, pledge, union, to ally, league
méng
Top: bright/clear (sun , moon ), below: bowl/plate
On a bright plate, it is presented: the oath of pledge.
JLPT HSK 6
full, filled, surplus
yíng
Top: 夃 therefore/thus [pregnancy belly; cf. pregnancy , where a child comes out of that womb ], hand ), below: bowl
A round pregnancy belly! - That's how a hand can fill a bowl until it is full.
JLPT HSK 6
to steal, to rob, to plunder, thief
dào
Top: next/following (ice is lacking , what comes next?) [to lack = yawning person with mouth wide open, who is lacking good manners], below: plate
If the ice [cream] is missing/lacking at that plate, it has been stolen.
JLPT HSK 6
inner strength, contain/collect, accumulate, hold in store
yùn
Top: grass , bottom: 缊 (thread 纟/, sun , bowl )
The grass has fibers/threads which, when viewed in light, are the bowl for inner strength.
JLPT HSK 6
to chew
jiáo, jué
Left: mouth , right: nobility (A hand takes the plates 罒(=) to serve food skillfully to the nobility.)
Also the mouths of the nobility chew.
JLPT HSK 6
knock against sth hard, knock off (mud/dirt)

Left: stone , right: 盍 (leave, go away [Below ground is the nose , which has left], bowl )
Stones "leave" you and (fall) into the bowl, when you knock them off.
JLPT HSK 6
to supervise, jail, prison, hard, firm
jiān, jiàn
Top: "cut bamboo" (= knife and half of bamboo ), below: bowl/plate
The cut bamboo (= the snippets/shred) is in a bowl where it is "jailed" or "supervised".
JLPT HSK 6
narrow, defile, pass, confined, in distress
ài
Left: hill , right: benefit (Laid tables with plates are for him [the restaurant owner] a benefit.)
At a hill it is beneficial, if there is a narrow pass.
JLPT no HSK
nobility, duke, baron, lord
jué
Top: hand reaching down , net/eye 罒 (here: plate ), below: var of food , skillful hand
A hand reaches down to the plates to serve food skillfully to the nobility.
JLPT no HSK
a small cup, classifier for lamps
zhǎn
Top: (two halberds ), below: bowl
The (diameter) of two halberds has this 'bowl': a small cup.
JLPT no HSK
to overflow, to spill over

Left: water , right: benefit (Laid tables with plates are for him (the restaurant owner) a benefit.)
(because it brings new soil as fertilizer) Water can be of use in case of overflowing.
JLPT no HSK
helmet
kuī
Top: ashes (If sth. covers "cliff--like" the fire , it is the ashes.), bottom: bowl, dish
At the cliff and against fire protects this 'bowl': the helmet.
JLPT no HSK
infection, epidemic, plague, pestilence
wēn
Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), right: 昷 (variant of warm = The water on a sunny plate becomes warm.)
(You get fever:) The disease of heat is: an infection.
JLPT no HSK
abundant, bowl, dish, pot
àng
Top: center (The yoke on the shoulders of the big man is centered.), bottom: bowl
(a lot fits in:) If you pile up centrally, it is abundantly in the bowl.
JLPT no HSK
eldest amongst brothers, first month of a season
mèng
Top: child , bottom: bowl
The child who got a bowl (as a present at birth) is the eldest brother.
JLPT no HSK
bowl, dish, vessel, shallow container
mǐn

Pictograph of a grooved bowl.
JLPT no HSK
to drive to insanity, to bewitch, intestinal parasite

Top: insect , below: bowl/plate
The insects in my bowl drive me: to insanity. (When there were insects in my bowl/food, the worms drive me to insanity.)
JLPT no HSK
handleless cup, goblet
zhōng
Top: middle, center (here: rotationally symmetrical around an axis), below: bowl
A rotationally symmetrical cup with no handle.

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