English

1. carpenter's plane
2. carpenter's plane
3. to dig
4. (noun) 1. (of pencil) sharpener; 2. (of fruit) peeler; 3. (of hair) shaver; (verb) 1. (of fruit) to peel off (skin); 2. (of student) read
5. to scrape off; to grate
6. device used for making a surface smooth by shaving thin layers off it
7. plane, level
8. to plane (woodwork)
9. to excavate
10. study hard
11. to study very hard, to "swot"
12. to shave off
13. (coll.) to exclude
14. to peel (with a potato peeler etc)
15. not to count
16. to deduct
17. to subtract

粵語

1. 喺物件嘅表面削走表面嗰層
2. 有刀片嘅用具，用嚟將物件嘅表面削走（量詞：個）
3. 專心咁反覆閲讀

Variants

• 鉋semantic variant
• 鑤traditional

Words containing 刨

• 刨花paau4 faa1

  wood shavings

• 刨書paau4 syu1

  to study hard

• 刨冰paau4 bing1

  shaved or crushed ice dessert or beverage

• 鬚刨sou1 paau2

  a razor

• 鉛筆刨jyun4 bat1 paau2

  a pencil sharpener

• 刨冬瓜paau4 dung1 gwaa1

  speak Mandarin Chinese in Cantonese accent

• 刨馬paau4 maa5

  to study horse racing seriously (and place bet)

• 刨子paau4 zi2

  plane

• 狗刨gau2 paau4

  dog paddle (swimming style)

• 刨工paau4 gung1

  planing

• 刨刀paau4 dou1

  planing tool

• 刨根paau4 gan1

  lit. to dig up the root

• 筆刨bat1 paau2

  pencil sharpener

• 刨齒paau4 ci2

  gear-shaping

• 電鬚刨din6 sou1 paau2

  an electric shaver

• 絲瓜刨si1 gwaa1 paau2

  a vegetable peeler

• 西瓜刨sai1 gwaa1 paau4

  Somebody who eats watermelon very quickly

• 蘿蔔刨lo4 baak6 paau2

  carrot grater

• 刨程paau4 cing4

  planing length

• 刨熟paau4 suk6
• 刨床paau4 cong4

  planer

• 須刨seoi1 paau4
• 刨柴paau4 caai4
• 刨花板paau4 faa1 baan2

  particle board