鍋

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The single kanji 鍋, read なべ, denotes a pot or hot-pot dish.
• Basic usage: 鍋 can mean the cooking vessel or a shared hot-pot dish cooked in it.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Cooking pot and hot-pot dish
  • 鍋で often marks the pot as an instrument, while a predicate such as eating after 鍋を can select the dish sense.