Skip to content
Mythic Mandarin

盆 (pén): meaning and stroke order

盆 (pén) means basin, flower pot, unit of volume equal to 12 斗 and 8 升, approx 128 liters, 个.

盆

Simplified
盆
Traditional
盆 (same form)
Pinyin
pén

Stroke order of 盆

盆

  • pén basin; flower pot
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 盆

  1. pén
    • basin
    • flower pot
    • unit of volume equal to 12 斗[dou3] and 8 升[sheng1], approx 128 liters
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radical and structure

盆
Radical 皿 (Kangxi radical 108) · 9 strokes · 分 on top, 皿 below

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.

盆 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 那天夜里，张别古起来，刚把瓦盆放在地上，盆里竟然传出了一个男人的哭声：“老伯伯，我死得好冤啊！”

    nà tiān yèli Zhāng Biégǔ qǐlai gāng bǎ wǎpén fàng zài dì shàng pén lǐ jìngrán chuánchū le yí gè nánrén de kūshēng lǎo bóbo wǒ sǐ de hǎo yuān a

    That night Zhang Biegu got up, and as soon as he set the basin down, a man's weeping came from inside it: "Old uncle, I died so unjustly!"

    From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 盆

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).