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Meaning of 瓮

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(Trad.: 甕)
Pinyin: wèng
English Definition: pottery container for water, wine etc; surname Weng; variant of ; earthen jar; urn
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (pottery) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ gōng ] fair, equitable; public; duke
    • [ ] tile; pottery, earthenware
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Example Words
瓮声瓮气 wèng shēng wèng to speak in a low muffled voice (idiom)
瓮城 wèng chéng enceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city
请君入瓮 qǐng jūn wèng lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom); fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine
瓮中之鳖 wèng zhōng zhī biē lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped (idiom)
瓮中捉鳖 wèng zhōng zhuō biē to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); to set oneself an easy target; a turkey shoot
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Example Sentences
1
Finally one of the servants remembered the eels in the urn.
2
Now it seems there may be some truth in the bard's words.
3
Perhaps we are brains in a vat, or living in the Matrix.
4
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bury an urn in Elizabeth New Jersey, B'nai Israel Cemetery
5
Sadly, nobody' s going to be carrying this guy around in a glass urn).