罐

guàn · HSK 7

can

罐 — can

🥫🏺 缶 = pottery vessel radical + 雚 (guàn) for sound = a clay jar or can

The left side 缶 is the pottery-vessel radical, marking 罐 as a clay container; the right side 雚 just lends the guàn sound. So the parts spell out vessel + guàn = a jar, pot, or can.

罐 — 缶 (jar) radical + 雚 (heron) phonetic
罐 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The 缶 element on the left means 'earthen jar or pottery vessel' and gives the meaning, while 雚 (a type of heron) on the right supplies the sound, related to 'guàn'. Originally referring to clay pots, it now denotes any can, jar, or tin.

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