lāo

scoop out of water

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

勞 sound component

  Sound component

láo

  

labor

Definitions

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lāo

scoop out of water; dredge, fish; to fish up; to dredge up

Most common words with 撈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to fish up

打捞

to salvage

捕捞

to catch

大海捞针

lit. to fish a needle from the sea

捞钱

lit. to dredge for money

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1097% of movies

2475th most common character in movies

2508th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6488


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