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Mythic Mandarin

锅 (guō): meaning and stroke order

锅 (guō) means pot; pan; wok; cauldron, pot-shaped thing, CL:口只.

锅

Simplified
锅
Traditional
鍋
Pinyin
guō

Stroke order of 锅

锅

  • guō pot; pan; wok; cauldron; pot-shaped thing
  • 12 strokes
  • Traditional form: 鍋

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 锅

  1. guō Traditional 鍋
    • pot; pan; wok; cauldron
    • pot-shaped thing
    • CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]

Radical and structure

锅
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 12 strokes · 钅 on the left, 呙 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

锅 in our stories

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  • 锅里的水开了，她们下饺子。

    guō lǐ de shuǐ kāi le tāmen xià jiǎozi

    The water in the pot boils, and they put the dumplings in.

    From the story Making dumplings HSK 2

  • 侍女们以为是没煮熟，就把它们放进锅里煮。煮了很久，还是咬不动。

    shìnǚ men yǐwéi shì méi zhǔ shú jiù bǎ tāmen fàng jìn guō lǐ zhǔ zhǔ le hěn jiǔ háishi yǎo bú dòng

    The maids thought they weren't cooked enough and boiled them in a pot. After a long time they still couldn't bite into them.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 锅

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).