撈
lāoláo HSK7

scoop out of water

捞 撈 lāo frequency
to scoop up verb
To pull or drag something out of water or another liquid; to fish up; to dredge up.

你能把我的球从泳池里捞出来吗？

nǐ néng bǎ wǒ​de qiú cóng yǒng​chí li lāo chū lái ma?

Can you get my ball out of the pool?

to gain improperly
To get or obtain something through improper or dishonest means.
捞 撈 láo
(bound form) [meaningless]
(bound form) Used only in the word 捞什子 lāo​shi​zi, meaning something that is annoying or worthless.

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,508th most common 19.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,475th most common 8.97 per million appears in 5% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.41 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
21.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
捞
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+6488

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)