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掏出

tāo chū

2-character word

What 掏出 means

1. to fish out
2. to take out (from a pocket, bag etc)

The characters in 掏出

• 掏tāoto fish out (from pocket); to scoop
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield

Example sentences

• 汤姆掏出钥匙开了门。
  Tāngmǔ tāochū yàoshi kāi le mén.
  Tom took out his key and opened the door.
• 男子从口袋中掏出枪，吓了我一跳。
  Nánzǐ cóng kǒudài zhōng tāochū qiāng, xià le wǒ yī tiào.
  To my horror, the man took a gun out of his pocket.
• 修女从黑色裙子的褶皱间掏出剪刀，熟练地将彩色纸剪成长而窄的纸条，让我们可以把这些纸条编成纸地毯。
  From between the pleats of her black skirt, the nun brought out scissors and deftly cut coloured paper into long, narrow strips, which we could then braid into a paper rug.