瓢

Meaning

瓢 centers on a gourd, especially the dried hollow shell used as a dipper or container.

• 瓢箪ひょうたん

  calabash (Lagenaria siceraria); bottle gourd

• 一瓢いっぴょう

  one gourd

• 一箪の食一瓢の飲いったんのしいっぴょうのいん

  simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink

• 乾瓢かんぴょう

  strips of dried gourd

• 二十八星瓢虫にじゅうやほしてんとう

  28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)

• 偽瓢虫てんとうむしだまし

  handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)

• 千成瓢箪せんなりびょうたん

  bottle gourd

• 滑瓢ぬらりひょん

  nurarihyon; elusive ghost resembling an old man with an elongated head

• 瓢箪から駒ひょうたんからこま

  something appearing from a place one wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse from a gourd

• 瓢箪から駒が出るひょうたんからこまがでる

  something appearing from a place you wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes out from a gourd

• 瓢箪鯰ひょうたんなまず

  (person) slippery as an eel

• 瓢鮎図ひょうねんず

  Hyonenzu (painting by Josetsu, 1415)

• 箪食瓢飲たんしひょういん

  simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink

• 青瓢箪あおびょうたん

  green calabash; unripe gourd

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