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瓶 — Bottle

JLPT N211 strokesSecondary school#1528 most used
bottle, vial, jar, jug, vat, urn
On’yomiビン (bin)
On’yomiヘイ (hei)
Kun’yomiかめ (kame)

Stroke order (11 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 瓶

WordReadingMeaning
びん
bin
bottle; jar; decanter
火炎瓶かえんびん
kaenbin
Molotov cocktail; petrol bomb; gasoline bomb
花瓶かびん
kabin
(flower) vase
瓶詰めびんづめ
binzume
bottling; bottled
空き瓶あきびん
akibin
empty bottle
魔法瓶まほうびん
mahoubin
thermos bottle; vacuum flask

Study notes

瓶 is a JLPT N2 kanji written with 11 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1528 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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