In ancient times, grain was stored in large earthen jars.
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甶 is an archaic word for a pottery jar and is not used independently in modern Chinese. The same shape also serves as the 'ghost-head' element at the top of 鬼 (ghost), 畏 (to fear), and 禺; you meet it only in classical glosses and component breakdowns.
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Archaic and lexicographic only. 甶 never appears as a standalone word in modern speech or writing.
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pictograph
甶zhuì
a wide-mouthed jar; ghost-head element
Treated as one unit: a 田-like body with a horn-like top, originally a drawing of a swollen jar. The same silhouette is reused as the eerie 'ghost head' on top of 鬼.
No stroke data for 甶; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
