dipper / ladle

瓢 character breakdown

melon / gourd / squash

= + + : Gitta Giraffe (gu) inspects the banana trees (⺁) in front of the ashram (a1) every day. One day, she found a very strange banana: she looked at it, and it looked like a melon (瓜). She then poked it with her finger (㇏). It felt like a melon! She then sniffed at it with her fake nose (厶). The banana smelled like a melon (瓜)! What a strange banana, Gitta thought to herself.
ticket / ballot / banknote / CL:張|张[zhang1] / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

= + : Pocahontas (pi) urgently needs to use the aorta's bathroom (ao4). In the bathroom there is a cleaning lady next to a guidon (示) on which it is written that you have to purchase a ticket (票) if you want to use the bathroom. To make sure that everyone is willing to pay the lady equipped herself with a knuckleduster (覀).

Characters with 瓢 as component

瓢 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 瓢

ladybug / ladybird
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly
(of rain) pouring
little water and few utensils / to live a frugal life (idiom)
bald head (colloquial)
top of the head / crown
seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification
solve one problem only to find another cropping up

Sentences with 瓢

瓢 currently does not appear in any sentence.