guō
noun HSK 5 #5,210

Measure Word

kǒu

Meanings

  1. 1 pot; pan; wok
  2. 2 cooking vessel

Examples

Māma zài guō lǐ chǎocài.
Mom is stir-frying vegetables in the wok.
Zhè kǒu guō tài xiǎo le, huàn yígè dà de.
This pot is too small — switch to a bigger one.
Huǒguō shì Zhōngguórén zuì xǐhuān de měishí zhīyī.
Hotpot is one of the Chinese people's favorite foods.
Bǎ tāng dào jìn guō lǐjiā rè.
Pour the soup into the pot and heat it up.

Tips

usage
火锅 (huǒguō) = hotpot. 炒锅 (chǎoguō) = wok. 平底锅 (píngdǐguō) = frying pan. 高压锅 (gāoyā guō) = pressure cooker.
culture
The internet slang 背锅 (bēi guō, 'to carry the pot') means to take the blame for something. 甩锅 (shuǎi guō, 'to throw the pot') means to shift blame onto someone else.

Components

radical
jīn
metal (radical form of 金)
Metal radical on the left — the contracted form of . Marks as a metal cooking vessel: traditional Chinese pots and woks are forged from iron. The same radical front-loads almost every metal-tool character (, , , ).
phonetic
guō
crooked mouth (here phonetic)
Right component supplies the sound exactly: guō. The traditional form used (also guō); the simplified is its modernised variant. Same phonetic in wō (whirlpool), wō (nest), wō (snail) — a tight wō/guō family.

Stroke Order

guō