釜
fǔ
Pinyin

Definition

釜
 - 
fǔ
  1. kettle
  2. cauldron

Character Decomposition

Related Words (4)

破釜沉舟
pò fǔ chén zhōu
  1. 1 lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat
  2. 2 to burn one's boats
釜山
Fǔ shān
  1. 1 Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qìng shàng nán dào], South Korea
釜山市
Fǔ shān shì
  1. 1 Busan Metropolitan City in South Gyeongsang Province 慶尚南道|庆尚南道[Qìng shàng nán dào], South Korea
釜底抽薪
fǔ dǐ chōu xīn
  1. 1 to take drastic measures to deal with a situation
  2. 2 to pull the carpet from under sb

Idioms (4)

破釜沉舟
pò fǔ chén zhōu
  1. 1 lit. to break the cauldrons and sink the boats (idiom); fig. to cut off one's means of retreat
  2. 2 to burn one's boats
跳出釜底进火坑
tiào chū fǔ dǐ jìn huǒ kēng
  1. 1 out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)
釜底游鱼
fǔ dǐ yóu yú
  1. 1 a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom)
  2. 2 in a desperate situation
黄钟毁弃瓦釜雷鸣
huáng zhōng huǐ qì wǎ fǔ léi míng
  1. 1 lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells
  2. 2 good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)

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