First opened Sunday, December 13, 2009
花瓶
かびん
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
(flower) vase
A vase is a “flower jar” in Chinese — and a native reading of the same spelling used an “earthenware pot”.
Taken apart
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Wiktionary's text doesn't split this word, so each part is one of its kanji (with the okurigana written after it), with the reading and the dictionary meaning KANJIDIC2 gives that character — a word doesn't always use every sense of its kanji.
In a sentence
彼は花瓶を落とした。
He dropped a vase.
花瓶を水で満たした。
I filled a vase with water.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From Middle Chinese 花 (MC xwae) and 瓶(びん) (bin, “jar”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 花瓶 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 花瓶 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not かびん. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
かへい
- “From Middle Chinese 花瓶 (MC xwae beng), using kan'on for the reading of 瓶.”
はながめ
- “Compound of 花(はな) (hana, “flower”) + 瓶(かめ) (kame, “earthenware pot”). The kame changes to game as an instance of rendaku (連濁).”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.