掏 — Chinese character
掏
tāo
to take out; to pull out; to clean out
- Pinyin
- tāo
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 扌 匋
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 匋
- Japanese
- 掏 as a kanji
Common words with 掏
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掏出 | tāo chū | to fish out; to take out (from a pocket, bag etc) |
| 掏钱 (掏錢) | tāo qián | to pay; to spend money |
| 掏空 | tāo kōng | to hollow out; to empty out |
| 自掏腰包 | zì tāo yāo bāo | to pay out of one's own pocket; to dig into one's pocket |
| 掏腰包 | tāo yāo bāo | to dip into one's pocket; to pay out of pocket; to foot the bill |
| 掏包 | tāo bāo | to pick pockets |
| 掏心掏肺 | tāo xīn tāo fèi | to be totally devoted (to a person) |
| 掏耳 | tāo ěr | to remove earwax with an ear pick |
| 掏耳勺 | tāo ěr sháo | ear pick |
English words written with 掏
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.