掏 (tāo) means Pull out (take out - [from pocket]). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他从口袋里 掏 出一把钥匙。
Tā cóng kǒudài lǐ tāo chū yì bǎ yàoshi.
He fished a key out of his pocket.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 掏
为了这个项目，他 掏 了不少钱。
Wèile zhège xiàngmù, tā tāo le bù shǎo qián.
He shelled out a lot of money for this project.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 掏
他从口袋里 掏 出一张钞票。
Tā cóng kǒudài lǐ tāo chū yì zhāng chāopiào.
He pulled a banknote out of his pocket.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 钞票
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Questions about 掏
How is 掏 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 掏 (tāo, "Pull out (take out - [from pocket])"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 掏 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 掏 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 掏 an HSK word?
Yes — 掏 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 掏?
The dictionary page for 掏 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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