撈

to fish up / to dredge up

to toil / labor / laborer / to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / meritorious deed / to console (Taiwan pr. [lao4] for this sense)

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

to salvage / to dredge / to fish out (person or object from the sea)

lit. to fish a needle from the sea / to find a needle in a haystack (idiom)

lit. to dredge for money / to make money by reprehensible means / to fish for a quick buck

to fish for (aquatic animals and plants) / to catch

to profiteer / to gain some underhand advantage

(coll.) to gain profit (usu. by underhand means)

to dredge up; to scoop up from the water / to fish for; to gain (by improper means)

to fish for / to seek profit (by improper means)

to get one's money back (esp. gambling) / to recoup one's losings

to make extra money

(fig.) to clutch at straws (in desperation) / to take advantage of the situation (unscrupulously)

encumbrance / burden / that awful thing (colloquial) / nuisance

sea rescue service / lifeboat service

lit. to scoop the moon out of the water (idiom) / a hopeless endeavor

Sarawak, state of Malaysia in northwest Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲

Haidilao (aka Hai Di Lao), hot pot restaurant chain founded in Sichuan in 1994

see 水中撈月|水中捞月[shui3 zhong1 lao1 yue4]

see 大海撈針|大海捞针[da4 hai3 lao1 zhen1]

fishing (as a commercial activity)