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碗
碗 ＝ 石 ＋ 宛
ㄨㄢˇ · wǎn
noun — a bowl
字源 FORM — what the parts do
宛聲wǎn — gives the sound exactlybending, hollowed — 宛轉's curve
Stone (石) hollowed round — the radical remembers bowls of stone and fired clay. 宛 gives the sound exactly, its own curve included. One bowl, then the bowlful — 一碗飯 — then the bowl a living rides on: 飯碗.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
熱湯倒進碗（石）裡，兩隻手捧著，暖到手心。
Hot soup into the bowl (石); two hands around it, warm to the palms.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)碗— the bowl常用
→一碗飯— the bowlful — the measure
⇒飯碗— the rice bowl — a living held or lost
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension