The Chinese Radical: 皿


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Meaning
bowl    皿

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 2
basket, goal
lán
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.  
HSK 3
dish, plate, tray, board, to coil
pán
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.  
HSK 4
warm, temperature
wēn
Left: water 氵, right: 昷 (sun 日 and a bowl/plate 皿)
The water in the sunny bowl becomes warm.  
HSK 4
salt
yán
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.  
HSK 4
small box, case

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

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.  
HSK 5
lid, cover, seal, canopy
gài, gě
Top: sheep 羊 (here: sheepskin), bottom: bowl/plate 皿
A sheepskin can be laid over a bowl, as: a lid.  
HSK 5
basin, flower pot, unit of volume =128 l
pén
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.  
HSK 6
flourishing, to contain, vigorous, prosperous
chéng, shèng
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.  
HSK 6
ferocious, violent, suddenly, fierce, abrupt
měng
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.  
HSK 6
oath, pledge, union, to ally, league
méng
Top: bright/clear 明 (sun 日, moon 月), below: bowl/plate 皿
On a bright plate, it is presented: the oath of pledge.  
HSK 6
full, filled, surplus
yíng
Top: 夃 therefore/thus 乃 [pregnancy belly; cf. pregnancy 孕, where a child 子 comes out of that womb 乃], hand 又), below: bowl 皿
A round pregnancy belly! - That's how a hand can fill a bowl until it is full.  
HSK 6
to steal, to rob, to plunder, thief
dào
Top: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠, what comes next?) [to lack 欠 = yawning ⺈ person 人 with mouth wide open, who is lacking good manners], below: plate 皿
We need a next plate, because one was stolen.  
HSK 6
inner strength, contain/collect, accumulate, hold in store
yùn
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.  
HSK 6
to chew
jiáo, jué
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.  
HSK 6
knock against sth hard, knock off (mud/dirt)

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.  
HSK 6
to supervise, jail, prison, hard, firm
jiān, jiàn
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".  
HSK 6
narrow, defile, pass, confined, in distress
ài
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.  
no HSK
nobility, duke, baron, lord
jué
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.  
no HSK
a small cup, classifier for lamps
zhǎn
Top: 戋 (two 二 halberds 戈), below: bowl 皿
The (diameter) of two halberds has this 'bowl': a small cup.  
no HSK
to overflow, to spill over

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.  
no HSK
helmet
kuī
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.  
no HSK
infection, epidemic, plague, pestilence
wēn
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.  
no HSK
abundant, bowl, dish, pot
àng
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.  
no HSK
eldest amongst brothers, first month of a season
mèng
Top: child 子, bottom: bowl 皿
The child who got a bowl (as a present at birth) is the eldest brother.  
no HSK
bowl, dish, vessel, shallow container
mǐn

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

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

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