lāo

scoop out of water

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 .

劳 sound component

  Sound component

láo

  

labor

Evolution

捞 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
捞 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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lāo

scoop out of water; dredge, fish; to fish up; to dredge up

Most common words with 捞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to fish up

打捞

to salvage

捕捞

to catch

大海捞针

lit. to fish a needle from the sea

捞钱

lit. to dredge for money

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1097% of movies

2475th most common character in movies

2508th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+635E


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