Kanji
釜
N1
10 strokes
Grade 8
freq #1761
kettle, cauldron, iron pot
On'yomi (音読み)
フ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
かま
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
外釜
そとがま
outer pot of a rice cooker
釣釜
つりがま
iron kettle suspended on a chain
塩釜
しおがま
salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
大釜
おおがま
cauldron
釜山
プサン
Busan (South Korea); Pusan
羽釜
はがま
broad-brimmed cooking pot for rice
土釜
どがま
earthen rice cooker
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
釜
かま
iron pot; kettle
地獄の釜の蓋も開く
じごくのかまのふたもあく
even the demons of hell rest during Obon and the New Year
釜炒り茶
かまいりちゃ
green tea fired in hot pans after a short withering (common Chinese technique)
釜煎り
かまいり
boiling to death (punishment during the Warring States period)
釜玉うどん
かまたまうどん
udon with raw egg, and shoyu, dashi, etc.
塩釜焼き
しおがまやき
cooking a fish inside a salt crust
お釜帽
おかまぼう
bowler hat; felt hat
釜中の魚
ふちゅうのうお
fish in a pot about to be boiled; person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger
釜風呂
かまぶろ
steam bath (often using brine)
地獄の釜の蓋
じごくのかまのふた
creeping bugleweed (Ajuga decumbens)