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(dialect) handle of a cup, kettle or other vessel
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鋬 designates the handle of a vessel, container, or tool, the part meant for lifting or holding. It is a phono-semantic compound, with 般 above giving the sound and 金 below signaling that the original reference was to metal handles fixed to bronze vessels, cauldrons, and tools. Over time its application widened to include handles on historical artifacts regardless of material. Today the character appears principally in archaeological writings, museum catalogs, and classical descriptions, functioning as a technical term rather than an everyday word.
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