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

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

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

Synonyms

瓢葫蘆／瓢葫芦
(Hokkien) 匏仔 (pû-á)