瓢

dipper / ladle

melon / gourd / squash

ticket / ballot / banknote / CL:張|张[zhang1] / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera / classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

ladybug / ladybird

downpour (idiom)

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

(of rain) pouring

(of rain) to fall heavily

little water and few utensils / to live a frugal life (idiom)

bald head (colloquial)

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