釜 (fǔ) — (literary) cauldron, large iron cooking pot

Definition

Examples

• 项羽破釜沉舟，表示不胜利就不回去。
  Xiàng yǔ pò fǔ chén zhōu, biǎo shì bú shèng lì jiù bù huí qù.
  Xiang Yu broke the cauldrons and sank the boats, showing he would not return without victory.
• 解决问题要釜底抽薪，不能只治标。
  Jiě jué wèn tí yào fǔ dǐ chōu xīn, bù néng zhī zhì biāo.
  To solve the problem you must remove the firewood from under the cauldron — you can't just treat the symptoms.
• 这个成语里用的釜是古代煮饭用的锅。
  Zhè ge chéng yǔ lǐ yòng de fǔ shì gǔ dài zhǔ fàn yòng de guō.
  The cauldron used in this idiom is a pot for cooking rice in ancient times.

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