pot; pan; wok; cauldron / pot-shaped thing / CL:口[kou3],隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) wants to cook some food in front of the observatory (o1). She has a pot (锅), but not a fireplace, so she quickly makes a fire and uses three golden harpoons (钅) to provide a base for her pot. The three golden harpoons stick with very different angles in the earth, so the pot sits on the fire very lopsided (呙).

锅 character breakdown

surname Guo
lopsided / Taiwan pr. [kuai1]

= + : Willy Walrus (w) has been accused of stealing two mandarins (口) in front of the airplane (ai1). He refuses to open his bag, so the arriving police has to put him into a CT (内) to see into (内) his bag. On the CT screen they see Willy Walrus and two lopsided (呙) mandarins in his bag.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.

Characters with 锅 as component

锅 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 锅

to be made a scapegoat / to be unjustly blamed
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)
to take even the cooking pots (idiom) / to clean out / to wipe out
to hunch one's back (coll.) / a hunchback
paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table)
erhua variant of 羅鍋|罗锅[luo2 guo1]
lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom) / fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
(slang) (neologism derived from 背黑鍋|背黑锅[bei1 hei1 guo1]) to carry the can / to be a scapegoat
hot pot containing stinky tofu and other ingredients (Taiwanese dish)
to block a shot (basketball)
tinker / artisan who fixes leaky pots
(Internet slang) to shift the blame; to pass the buck
stew pot / stew pan / saucepan
a still (for distilling alcohol)
to casserole / to stew / vacuum flask / cooker
(Internet slang) to shift the blame / to pass the buck

Sentences with 锅

锅 currently does not appear in any sentence.