gourd
瓢 centers on a gourd, especially the dried hollow shell used as a dipper or container.
瓢 combines 票 (likely phonetic) with 瓜 (gourd), forming a character for a gourd or gourd-shaped dipper.
票 looks like a ticket or label, and 瓜 is a gourd. Imagine a labeled gourd used as a dipper: 瓢 is a gourd.
For ヒョウ, picture a gourd floating like a buoy on water: buoy -> ヒョウ, and the gourd bobs along.
calabash (Lagenaria siceraria); bottle gourd
one gourd
simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink
strips of dried gourd
28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)
handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)
bottle gourd
nurarihyon; elusive ghost resembling an old man with an elongated head
something appearing from a place one wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse from a gourd
something appearing from a place you wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes out from a gourd
(person) slippery as an eel
Hyonenzu (painting by Josetsu, 1415)
simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink
green calabash; unripe gourd