瓦

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/瓦

Glyph origin
– fired earthenware pottery, or a tile.

Etymology 1
Possibly derived from by eliminating causative devoicing and adding an endoactive rising tone, literally “that which has transformed (through fire)”.

Definitions

 * 1) earthenware; earthenware pottery
 * 2) tile roof covering
 * 3)  back of shield (arching, as if it is covered by tile)
 * 4)  amusement park; market
 * 5)  protecting plate of wheel
 * : Wa
 * : Wa
 * : Wa

Etymology 2
Derived from etymology 1 with denominal verbalization.

Definitions

 * 1) to tile; to cover with tiles

Kanji

 * 1) tile
 * 2) gram, gramme

Etymology 1


→ →

Probably from,  possibly via. Along with Buddhism, roof tiles came to Japan in the.

Cognate with,.

Folk etymologies include:
 * From, the of verb , from the idea that tiles were produced by changing the clay into pottery through firing

Noun

 * 1) roof tile

Etymology 2
Abbreviation of transliterated spelling, attested in the. The term itself was borrowed from either  or.

Once considered a, another example being.

Etymology 3
From.

Affix

 * 1) roof tile
 * : gas
 * : gas

Etymology
From.