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1 (sports) (cricket) to bowl a batsman out

1 to inscribe a poem (often, composed on the spot) on a painting, fan or ceramic bowl etc as a work of calligraphy

2 an inscribed poem

1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)

2 fig. to be impartial

1 bloody mouth wide open like a sacrificial bowl (idiom); ferocious mouth of beast of prey

2 fig. greedy exploiter

3 rapacious aggressor

1 Super Cup (various sports)

2 Super Bowl (American football championship game)

1 Super Cup (various sports)

2 Super Bowl (American football championship game)

1 Super Bowl (American football championship game)

1 bowl cut (hairstyle)

1 secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)

1 chamber pot

2 wooden pan used as toilet

3 toilet bowl

1 drumming on a bowl in grief (idiom, refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife)

2 fig. grief for a lost wife

1 treasure bowl (mythology)

2 fig. source of wealth

3 cornucopia

4 gold mine

1 rice bowl

2 fig. livelihood

3 job

4 way of making a living

1 pet food bowl

2 dog bowl

1 lit. to drum on a bowl

2 refers to Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子 grieving for his lost wife

3 fig. grief for a lost wife

1 to fasten

2 to button

3 button

4 buckle

5 knot

6 to arrest

7 to confiscate

8 to deduct (money)

9 discount

10 to knock

11 to smash, spike or dunk (a ball)

12 to cover (with a bowl etc)

13 (fig.) to tag a label on sb

14 (Tw) (loanword) code

1 lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom)

2 not content with what one already has

3 (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye

1 soup bowl