瓮 wèng
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wèng
noun
an urn; a pottery container
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Art
Notes: A large or decorative vessel, variant of 甕 (AAT '300129425'; CC-CEDICT '瓮'; Guoyu '瓮'; Unihan '瓮') -
wèng
noun
a pottery container
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: The simplified character is also an archaic variant of 甕.
Contained in
- 蓬户瓮牖(蓬戶甕牖) thatched house, broken urn windows; poor person's house; humble home
- 瓮中捉鳖(甕中捉鱉) to catch a turtle in a jar; to set oneself an easy target; a turkey shoot
- 瓮城(甕城) enceinte of a city gate; barbican entrance to a city
- 瓮中之鳖(甕中之鱉) lit. like a turtle in a jar; to be trapped
- 瓮声瓮气(甕聲甕氣) to speak in a low muffled voice
- 请君入瓮(請君入甕) please Sir, get into the boiling pot; to give sb a taste of his own medicine
- 瓮棺葬(甕棺葬) urn burial
- 好酒沉瓮底(好酒沉甕底) the best wine is at the bottom of the jug; the best is saved for last
- 瓮牖(甕牖) a window made from shards of pottery
- 瓮棺(甕棺) funerary urn
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- 第十五回 Chapter 15 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
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- 聘禮 第八 8. Rites of courtesy calls The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 41 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第十回 Chapter 10 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
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- 《瓦部》 Wǎ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 2
- 卷106中 地形志二中 Volume 106b Treatise 2: Terrain 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 1
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Collocations
- 瓮中 (瓮中) 婦從甕中出 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans — count: 19
- 金瓮 (金瓮) 金甕 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷52 列傳第17 韓擒虎 賀若弼 Volume 52 Biographies 17: Han Qinhu, He Ruobi — count: 10
- 瓮吉 (瓮吉) 以甕吉剌帶醜漢所部軍五百戍哈答城 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷九 本紀第九: 世祖六 Volume 9 Annals 9: Shizu 6 — count: 6
- 二十瓮 (二十瓮) 醯醢百有二十甕 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 秋官司寇 第五 5. Office of Autumn and Minister of Justice — count: 4
- 瓮山 (瓮山) 西南有懸甕山 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷106上 地形志二上 Volume 106a Treatise 2: Terrain 1 — count: 4
- 银瓮 (銀瓮) 銀甕啓 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷四十七 列傳第二十八 王融 謝朓 Volume 47 Biographies 28: Wang Rong, Xie Tiao — count: 4
- 百瓮 (百瓮) 醯醢百甕 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓上》 Tan Gong I — count: 3
- 击瓮 (擊瓮) 夫擊甕叩缶彈箏搏髀 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《李斯列傳》 Biography of Li Si — count: 3
- 酒瓮 (酒瓮) 以居酒瓮 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun — count: 3
- 大瓮 (大瓮) 取車輪石臼大甕器等 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷15 志第10 音樂下 Volume 15 Treatises 10: Music 3 — count: 3