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舀

yǎo

Character

What 舀 means

1. to ladle out; to scoop up

Words starting with 舀

• 舀勺yǎo sháoscoop; dipper
• 舀子yǎo ziladle; scoop
• 舀水yǎo shuǐto ladle water; to scoop up water
• 舀汤yǎo tāngto ladle out soup

Characters that look like 舀

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

• 孩hái(bound form) child
• 弱ruòweak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as
• 扇shànfan; sliding, hinged or detachable flat part of sth; classifier for doors, windows etc
• 崩bēngto collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor
• 翁wēngelderly man; father; father-in-law
• 哉zāi(exclamatory or interrogative particle)

Sounds the same

Read yǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 咬to bite; to nip
• 杳dark and quiet; disappear
• 窈(literary) deep; profound; dim (variant of 杳
• 窅sunken eyes; deep and hollow; remote and obscure
• 婹svelte; sylphlike
• 崾(used in place names)
• 眑sunken eyes; deep; abstruse
• 蓔a variety of grass
• 騕name of a fabulous horse
• 鷕cry of hen pheasant
• 窔dark; deep; southeast corner of room