Top: bamboo 竹, below: supervise 监 (For the cut bamboo 监[= knife刂 & half of bamboo 竹] is a bowl 皿 for its supervision)
Bamboo, that is supervised (= brought into shape) serves as a basket.

Top: boat/ship 舟 (rowing boat with two persons 丶丶), below: plate, bowl 皿
It is floating like a boat or a bowl: this dish.

Left: water 氵, right: 昷 (sun 日 and a bowl/plate 皿)
The water in the sunny bowl becomes warm.

Top: 圤 (earth 土, fortune telling 卜 also understood as a branching), bottom: bowl 皿
From earth it can be separated (branched off) and collected in a bowl: salt.

Top: to fit 合 (the lid on the pot 口), below: bowl/plate 皿
A fitting lid turns a bowl into a box.

In the middle: table , with something on 丷 and below: plates/bowl 皿
With a well-laid table and plates he (i.e. the restaurant owner) benefits.

Top: sheep 羊 (here: sheepskin), bottom: bowl/plate 皿
A sheepskin can be laid over a bowl, as: a lid.

Top: tp divide 分 (... with the sword 刀 in 8 八 pieces), below: plate dish 皿
We divide in a dish or basin of 128 l.

Top: achieve, become, make 成 (in direction 方 of halberd 戈 we will achieve it.), below: bowl 皿
Fill up the bowls and it will be flourishing.

Left: wild animal 犭 (dog on the hind legs), right: eldest brother 孟 (child 子, bowl/plate 皿)
The animal has a child in its bowl: It was ferocious and violent.

Top: bright/clear 明 (sun 日, moon 月), below: bowl/plate 皿
On a bright plate, it is presented: the oath of pledge.

Top: 夃 therefore/thus 乃 [pregnancy belly], hand 又), below: bowl 皿
A round pregnancy belly! - That's how a hand can fill a bowl until it is full.

Top: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠 [Yawning person 人 who is lacking good manners.], what comes next?), below: plate 皿
The next plate was stolen.

Top: grass 艹, bottom: 缊 (thread 纟/糸, sun 日, bowl 皿)
The grass has fibers/threads which, when viewed in light, are the bowl for inner strength.

Left: mouth 口, right: nobility 爵 (A hand 爫 takes the plates 罒(=皿) to serve food 食 skillfully 寸 to the nobility.)
Also the mouths of the nobility chew.

Left: stone 石, right: 盍 (leave, go away 去 [Below ground 土 is the nose 厶, which has left], bowl 皿)
Stones "leave" you and (fall) into the bowl, when you knock them off.

Top: "cut bamboo" (= knife 刂 and half of bamboo 竹), below: bowl/plate 皿
The cut bamboo (= the snippets/shred) is in a bowl where it is "jailed" or "supervised".

Left: hill 阝, right: benefit 益 (Laid 丷 tables with plates 皿 are for him [the restaurant owner] a benefit.)
At a hill it is beneficial, if there is a narrow pass.

Top: hand reaching down 爫, net/eye 罒 (here: plate 皿), below: var of food 食, skillful hand 寸
A hand reaches down to the plates to serve food skillfully to the nobility.

Top: 戋 (two 二 halberds 戈), below: bowl 皿
The (diameter) of two halberds has this 'bowl': a small cup.

Left: water 氵, right: benefit 益 (Laid 丷 tables with plates 皿 are for him (the restaurant owner) a benefit.)
(because it brings new soil as fertilizer) Water can be of use in case of overflowing.

Top: ashes 灰 (If sth. covers "cliff-厂-like" the fire 火, it is the ashes.), bottom: bowl, dish 皿
At the cliff and against fire protects this 'bowl': the helmet.

Left: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), right: 昷 (variant of warm 温 = The water 氵 on a sunny 日 plate 皿 becomes warm.)
(You get fever:) The disease of heat is: an infection.

Top: center 央 (The yoke 冂 on the shoulders of the big 大 man is centered), bottom: bowl 皿
(a lot fits in:) If you pile up centrally, it is abundantly in the bowl.

Top: child 子, bottom: bowl 皿
The child who got a bowl (as a present at birth) is the eldest brother.

Pictograph of a grooved bowl.

Top: insect 虫, below: bowl/plate 皿
The insects in my bowl drive me: to insanity.

Top: middle, center 中 (here: rotationally symmetrical around an axis丨), below: bowl 皿
A rotationally symmetrical cup has no handle.