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瓶 means 'flower pot'

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Strokes : 11    Frequency: 1593   JLPT: N2    Usefulness: 4    Study set: 4-20    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: 53    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 11 words   Used in 65 words   Used in 137 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
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   ビン
Kun    かめ flower pot, bottle, flask
Name    へい   べ   ぺ
  
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Find out about peering through alcohol bottles to understand history! See why people might call a bottle rectangular even if the base is round! Explore Ramune bottle design, a mushroom dish cooked in a teapot, a plant with leaves resembling water pitchers, and a genie who lives in a bottle in a classic anime. Learn to say, "The vase broke into fragments" and "The wine is bottled at this factory.”
The essay is also included in the following Thematic Bundles
05
Holding Space: Containers and Lids
缶 鉢 瓶 蓋
As all four kanji represent containers or lids, the essays abound in canning and bottling goods, whether jam or tuna, beer or shochu. Food preparation takes center stage, from grinding spices and kneading dough to cooking mushrooms in a teapot. Things heat up with hibachis, kettles, steam boilers, and the "cauldron of hell"! More unexpectedly, Buddhism keeps popping up, what with ritual vessels and mendicant priests who carry begging bowls. Body parts serve as metaphorical lids and pots. And with more figurative leaps we touch on opening the lid of one's mind and bottling youth.
⿰   combine   tile  
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In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 瓶 is used 3 times, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 瓶 is used 49 times, read 2 ways (with 3 variations).
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ビン : 35 words FIND ALL
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Most common form: びん
noun
bottle; jar; decanter; flagon; phial; vial
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かめ : 1 word FIND ALL
noun
earthenware pot
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かめ (read as がめ) : 3 words FIND ALL
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noun
Aquarius (constellation); the Water Carrier; the Water Bearer
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べ: 6 words. FIND ALL
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noun
pouring ladle (in ironworks)  (see also: 取り鍋)
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へい: 4 words. FIND ALL
noun
earthenware pot (used as a decanter); jar; jug
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An additional 5 less common words include 瓶 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
Henshall: 1747  Joy o' Kanji : 1747  Key to Kanji:

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ビン    flower pot   
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ヘイ    combine   
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eight
start, initiate   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
twenty; two hands   
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ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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stick   
ガ   かわら tile   
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