掏 (搯) tāo
tāo
verb
to fish out
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: from a pocket
Contained in
- 掏出 to fish out; to take out (from a pocket, bag etc)
- 掏包 to pick pockets
- 掏心掏肺 to be totally devoted (to a person)
- 掏腰包 to dip into one's pocket; to pay out of pocket; to foot the bill
- 掏空 to hollow out; to empty out; to use up; tunneling
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 《手部》 Shǒu Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 5
- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 魯語下 Discourses of Lu II Guoyu 國語 — count: 1
- 卷一百九十五 列傳第一百二十 孝友 Volume 195 Biographies 120: Filial Obedience and Brotherly Friendship New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 1
- 卷五十二 列傳第三十三 文學 Volume 52 Biographies 33: Men of Letters Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 1
- 卷七 齊本紀中第七: 顯祖文宣帝 廢帝 孝昭帝 Volume 7 Northern Qi Annals 2: Emperor Xianzu Wenxuan, Deposed Emperor, Emperor Xiaozhao History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 掏摸 (搯摸) 諸掏摸人身上錢物者 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷一百〇四 志第五十二: 刑法三 Volume 104 Treatises 57: Punishment and Law 3 — count: 3
- 掏膺 (搯膺) 搯膺腐眥 — New Book of Tang 新唐書, 卷一百九十五 列傳第一百二十 孝友 Volume 195 Biographies 120: Filial Obedience and Brotherly Friendship — count: 2
- 里掏 (裡搯) 又向褲腰里掏了半晌 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 25 — count: 2
- 掏促织 (搯促織) 今日正在園內掏促織 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 73 — count: 2