釜
kettle, cauldron, iron pot
Readings
On'yomi
- フ
Kun'yomi
- かま
Meaning
釜 centers on a sturdy metal cooking vessel: a kettle, cauldron, or iron pot used for boiling or heating.
Most common words using 釜
20 of 43- 釜かまN2
iron pot; kettle
- お釜おかま
pot
- 釜山プサン
Busan (South Korea); Pusan
- 後釜あとがま
successor; replacement
- 釜飯かまめし
rice, meat and vegetable dish served in a small pot
- 塩釜しおがま
salt pan (used for boiling seawater to make salt)
- 大釜おおがま
cauldron
- 茶釜ちゃがま
kettle (used in tea ceremony)
- お釜帽おかまぼう
bowler hat; felt hat
- 一つ釜ひとつかま
one or the same pot; eating or living together
- 二重釜にじゅうがま
jacketed kettle; double boiler
- 内釜うちがま
rice cooker pot; pot inside rice cooker
- 初釜はつがま
first tea ceremony of New Year
- 同じ釜の飯を食うおなじかまのめしをくう
to live together; to be close friends; to eat out of the same pot
- 土釜どがま
earthen rice cooker
- 圧力釜あつりょくがま
pressure cooker
- 地獄の釜じごくのかま
the cauldron of Hell (in which sinners are boiled)
- 地獄の釜の蓋じごくのかまのふた
creeping bugleweed (Ajuga decumbens)
- 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
- 塩釜焼きしおがまやき
cooking a fish inside a salt crust
Study
Etymology
釜 combines 父 (likely a phonetic component) with a lower element representing metal or a vessel. The exact historical development is uncertain, but it is associated with metal pots.
Meaning mnemonic
The top 父 looks like a lid or handle, and the lower part resembles a metal pot. Picture a father lifting the lid of a steaming iron kettle.
Reading mnemonic
For フ, imagine a huge cauldron full of bubbling food: the sound of bubbling 'fu fu' cues フ while the pot heats up.