What 盂 means
A bowl or basin for food, drink, or water.
In Chinese, 盂 names a bowl-like vessel; 盆 is broader for basins. Bronze inscriptions from the early Western Zhou, an early Chinese dynasty, use 盂 for serving rice. Japanese also uses 盂, a kanji (Chinese-origin character), for a bowl.
In Chinese, 水盂 is a water bowl, 缽盂 an alms bowl, 痰盂 a spittoon, and 腎盂 the urine-collecting space in a kidney. In 盂蘭盆, the characters render a Buddhist term by sound, so 盂’s bowl meaning does not carry over.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 盂 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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盂\76C2Codes and encoding1 code points
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