匏瓜

Chinese

		bottle gourd; Lagenaria vulgaris	melon; claw; gourd melon; claw; gourd; squash
trad. (匏瓜)		匏	瓜
simp. #(匏瓜)		匏	瓜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): páoguā

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paau⁴ gwaa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: páoguā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄠˊ ㄍㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: páogua
    • Wade–Giles: pʻao²-kua¹
    • Yale: páu-gwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: paurgua
    • Palladius: паогуа (paogua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ku̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paau⁴ gwaa¹
    • Yale: pàauh gwā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paau⁴ gwaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pao⁴ gua¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaːu̯²¹ kʷaː⁵⁵/

Noun

匏瓜

1. Certain varieties of Lagenaria siceraria (with tendrils on its stem and whose fruit is larger than 葫蘆／葫芦 (“calabash”))
2. (obsolete) Lagenaria siceraria (calabash)
3. (obsolete) name of a star
4. (figurative) an unmarried man who lives alone

Synonyms

• 瓢葫蘆／瓢葫芦
• (Hokkien) 匏仔 (pû-á)