Where the shape comes from
A clay jar with a lid, shown with the mallet or pestle that shaped it in the potter’s mould just above the rim. It sits inside 陶, pottery, ceramics, and inside 缺, lacking, missing, incomplete, from a jar cracked or chipped until something is gone from it.
汉字 filed under 缶
No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.