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It refers broadly to baked pottery. Such baked pottery was also used for roofing material, which is specifically called "giwa" (기와) in Korean, meaning roof tiles.

瓦 is a pictograph depicting roof tiles interlocking with each other.
In Japan, during the Meiji Restoration when Western natural science terminology was introduced, the unit of weight "gram" was represented by 瓦.

#90 — a piece of split wood

#91 — thin/small piece, flake, fragment

#92 — molar, cheek tooth, wisdom tooth

#93 — cow, ox

#94 — dog

#95 — deep, profound, dark, mysterious

#96 — bead jade, bead, precious thing, beautiful thing, etc

#97 — melon, gourd, squash

#98 — roof tile

#99 — sweet

#100 — to be born, to live, raw, uncooked

#101 — to use, to employ

#102 — field, farm field

#103 — a pair, the leg below the knee

#104 — to lean on while sick

#105 — to be reverse, to spread or raise the feet outward

#106 — white, clean, clear, to explain, to report

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瓦

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