King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

匏 — Chinese character

匏
páo
gourd; musical instrument

Pinyin
páo
Radical
20 ⼓ (Wrap)
Strokes
11
Components
夸 包
Formation
pictophonetic — extravagant; meaning component 夸; sound component 包
Japanese
匏 as a kanji

匏 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 1

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.