tāo

take out

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

匋 sound component

  Sound component

táo

  

pottery

Definitions

 

tāo

take out; pull out; clean out; to fish out (from pocket); to scoop

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tāo

variant of [tāo]

Most common words with 掏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to scoop

掏空

to hollow out

掏腰包

to dip into one's pocket