calabash or bottle gourd; a symbol used by Chinese pharmacists, healers, and Daoist sages

Huludao, a prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province; also refers to a peninsula in the same region shaped like a gourd.

Traditional Chinese snack made of hawthorn berries or other fruit covered in a hard sugar glaze on a bamboo skewer; also called [[冰糖葫芦|冰糖葫蘆|bing1 tang2 hu2 lu5]]

Traditional Northern Chinese snack consisting of fruit, commonly hawthorn, coated in hard sugar syrup and served on a bamboo skewer; also known as [[糖葫芦|糖葫蘆|tang2 hu2 lu5]].

zucchini; courgette; summer squash (Cucurbita pepo)

Huludao, a prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province [[辽宁省|遼寧省|liao2 ning2 sheng3]]

A perennial aquatic plant with thick green leaves and purple flowers that floats on the surface of ponds and rivers; also called [[水浮莲|水浮蓮|shui3 fu2 lian2]] or [[凤眼莲|鳳眼蓮|feng4 yan3 lian2]].

Literally "to draw a gourd from a model"; means to copy something without any originality or to follow a pattern blindly.

A closed gourd; used to describe a complete mystery, a puzzle, or an enigma that is hard to figure out

to follow an existing pattern without modification; to copy blindly or apply old knowledge to new situations

Literally meaning to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model; refers to copying or imitating something mechanically without any creativity of one's own.

(idiom) to push down the gourd only for the ladle to float up; to be unable to attend to everything at once because there are too many problems to handle

fenugreek; the plant Trigonella foenum-graecum or its seeds used as a spice or in medicine

(idiom) to copy or imitate something blindly without any originality or new ideas

a large kind of field cricket that is brownish-black and looks oily; it hides during the day and feeds on crops like cotton and sesame at night

A person who is silent or very quiet; someone who rarely speaks

a Latin American percussion instrument made from a dried gourd or coconut with seeds inside

a magical bottle gourd that grants wishes; a treasured gourd

"Secret of the Magic Gourd" (1958), a prize-winning children's fairy tale by [[张天翼|張天翼|zhang1 tian1 yi4]]

lever hoist pulley; manual ratcheting hoist used for lifting or pulling heavy loads

A manual lifting device used to raise heavy objects by pulling on a chain; hand chain pulley block

A manual lifting device used to move heavy objects by pulling a lever

To be puzzled or kept in the dark by an enigma or mystery; to feel bewildered by a situation one does not understand

An unidentified type of bird mentioned in ancient Chinese poetry

pneumatic hoist pulley

an electric chain pulley block or hoist mechanism used for lifting heavy loads

cucurbit flute; a traditional Chinese wind instrument with free reeds and three bamboo pipes through a gourd

(erhua form) bottle gourd; calabash; also used as a symbol of pharmacists or Daoist sages

(botany) the gourd family of flowering plants, including melons and squashes; characterized as mostly climbing vines with tendrils and heart-shaped leaves

Used as a metaphorical question to ask what someone's hidden intentions or secret plans are.

A manual or power-operated lifting device consisting of a pulley block and chain or rope.

earthenware money box; piggy bank

(dialect) (loanword) manhole