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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

Radical (部首)

金 gold kane

Others with this radical

金 銀 針 録 鉄 鈴 銭 銃 鋼 鎖 鉱 鑑

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)
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