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瓦 Radical 98 — roof tile; earthenware, pottery

wǎ (third tone, dipping)

roof tile; earthenware, pottery

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Where the shape comes from

A curved roof tile shown in cross-section, the overlapping curve that sheds rain — the same shape, by extension, for anything shaped on a potter’s wheel from clay. It sits under 瓷, porcelain, and under 瓶, a bottle, jar, both naming the fired clay vessels of the potter’s craft that once shared the kiln with roof tiles themselves.

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