葫蘆

calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) / hoist / generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof) / muddled / (poker) full house

Characters and words in 葫蘆

hú = hu + Ø2

Allium scorodoprasum / bottle gourd

葫 = 艹 + 胡 : Helga Horse (hu) is growing bottle gourd (葫) on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). For Halloween she decorates the plants with Confucius-style beards (胡).

lú = lu + Ø2

rush / reed / Phragmites communis

芦 = 艹 + 户 : Lenny Lemur (lu) is growing reed (芦) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). His garden has a nice wooden swinging door (户) and the soil consists of shredded artificial lawn (艹).

Words with 葫蘆

zucchini

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom) / fig. to copy slavishly

sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu

sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu

fenugreek

lever hoist pulley

hand chain pulley block

lever pulley block

solve one problem only to find another cropping up

lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom) / fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality

pelican / same as 鵜鶘|鹈鹕

pneumatic hoist pulley

Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] in northeast China

Huludao prefecture-level city in Liaoning province 遼寧省|辽宁省[Liao2 ning2 Sheng3] in northeast China

hulusi, aka cucurbit flute (a kind of free reed wind instrument)

what has (he) got up (his) sleeve? / what's going on?

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification

magic gourd, granting your every wish

Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼|张天翼[Zhang1 Tian1 yi4]

lit. closed gourd / fig. enigma / complete mystery / taciturn person

Sentences with 葫蘆

葫蘆 currently does not appear in any sentence.