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瓢

piáo

Character

What 瓢 means

1. dipper
2. ladle

Example sentences

• 不要把脏锅碗瓢盆放在炉子上，去洗。
  Don't leave dirty pots and pans on the stove; wash them.
• 汤姆没有彻底清洗锅碗瓢盆，导致玛莉得了痢疾。
  Because Tom didn't thoroughly clean the pots, Mary got dysentery.
• 汤姆和玛莉的小儿子喜欢坐在厨房地板上敲打锅碗瓢盆。
  Tom and Mary's little boy loves sitting on the kitchen floor banging pots and pans.
• 露营时，汤姆没有彻底清洗锅碗瓢盆，导致玛莉得了痢疾。
  While camping, Tom gave Mary dysentery by not thoroughly cleaning the pots and pans.

Words starting with 瓢

• 瓢泼大雨piáo pō dà yǔdownpour (idiom)
• 瓢泼piáo pō(of rain) pouring
• 瓢羹piáo gēng(dialect) spoon
• 瓢虫piáo chóngladybug; ladybird
• 瓢泼而下piáo pō ér xià(of rain) to fall heavily

Words containing 瓢

• 锅碗瓢盆guō wǎn piáo pénkitchen utensils (literary)
• 嘴瓢zuǐ piáo(colloquial) to get one's words mixed up; to misspeak
• 秃瓢tū piáobald head (colloquial)
• 脑瓢儿nǎo piáo rtop of the head; crown
• 依葫芦画瓢yī hú lu huà piáolit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom)…
• 照葫芦画瓢zhào hú lu huà piáolit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom); fig. to copy slavishly
• 疏水箪瓢shū shuǐ dān piáolittle water and few utensils; to live a frugal life (idiom)
• 七星瓢虫qī xīng piáo chóngseven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• 按下葫芦浮起瓢àn xià hú lú fú qǐ piáosolve one problem only to find another cropping up
• 茄二十八星瓢虫qié èr shí bā xīng piáo chóng28-spotted ladybird; hadda beetle; Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata

Characters built on 票

These share the phonetic component 票 (piào), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 漂piàoused in 漂亮
• 飘piāoto float (in the air); to flutter; to waft; complacent; frivolous; weak; shaky; wobbly
• 镖biāodart-like throwing weapon; goods sent under the protection of an armed escort
• 嫖piáoto visit a prostitute
• 瞟piǎoto cast a glance
• 剽piāoto rob; swift; nimble
• 缥piāoused in 缥渺; Taiwan pr. piǎo
• 嘌piào(literary) fast; speedy; used in 嘌呤

Characters that look like 瓢

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 豁huōopening; stake all; sacrifice
• 魏wèitower over a palace gateway (old)
• 飘piāoto float (in the air); to flutter; to waft; complacent; frivolous; weak; shaky; wobbly
• 黏niánsticky; glutinous; (Taiwan) to adhere; to stick on; to glue
• 骼géused in 骨骼
• 颞nièbones of the temple (on the human head); see 颞颥, temple

Sounds the same

Read piáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 嫖to visit a prostitute
• 朴surname Piao; Korean surname (Park, Pak or Bak); also pr. Pú