"掏" Chinese-English Dictionary

掏 tāo

Traditional: 搯
Radical: 手 (4 traits)
Number of strokes: 11
Structure: gauche et droite
HSK: HSK 6

Cangjie: QPOU 手心人山
Sijiao: 5702.0
Wubi: RQRM
GB 2312: CCCD
Big5: B1C7
Unicode: U+638F

Decomposition Practice Sheet Dictionary of examples Synonyms

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
掏搯	tāo	variant of 掏[tao1]	syn

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
掏出	tāo chū	to fish out / to take out (from a pocket, bag etc)
掏包	tāo bāo	to pick pockets
掏耳	tāo ěr	to remove earwax with an ear pick
掏空	tāo kōng	to hollow out / to empty out / to use up / (finance) tunneling	syn
掏钱掏錢	tāo qián	to pay / to spend money / to fork out	syn
掏腰包	tāo yāo bāo	to dip into one's pocket / to pay out of pocket / to foot the bill	syn
掏心掏肺	tāo xīn tāo fèi	to be totally devoted (to a person)

Chinese	Pinyin	Translation	Actions
自掏腰包	zì tāo yāo bāo	to pay out of one's own pocket / to dig into one's pocket