瓢
gourd
Readings
On'yomi
- ヒョウ
Kun'yomi
- ひさご
- ふくべ
Meaning
瓢 centers on a gourd, especially the dried hollow shell used as a dipper or container.
Most common words using 瓢
- 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
Study
Etymology
瓢 combines 票 (likely phonetic) with 瓜 (gourd), forming a character for a gourd or gourd-shaped dipper.
Meaning mnemonic
票 looks like a ticket or label, and 瓜 is a gourd. Imagine a labeled gourd used as a dipper: 瓢 is a gourd.
Reading mnemonic
For ヒョウ, picture a gourd floating like a buoy on water: buoy -> ヒョウ, and the gourd bobs along.