Kanji Detail for 瓠 - "gourd, gourd vessel, hollow"

瓠

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
瓠 means "gourd, gourd vessel, hollow."
1. Gourd - A general term for calabashes and bottle gourds; an annual vine of the Cucurbitaceae family.
2. Gourd vessel - A dried, hollowed-out gourd used as a container.
3. Hollow - Empty and spacious inside.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

gourd

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

bottle gourd; calabash; pot

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

gourd

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

bottle gourd, calabash

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A vegetable plant. Stems, leaves, and flowers all similar to gourds. Fruit over a foot long. White flesh. Can be cooked and eaten. Also called 扁蒲 (flat gourd). Another variety, with a thin long upper part and one end round and large, is called 懸瓠 (hanging gourd). When old and ripe, it is split to make ladles, which can be used to scoop water or hold wine and such. | 瓠落. Like 廓落 (vast and empty). Seen in (Zhuangzi).
Onyomi

kaku(かく)

ko(こ)
Kunyomi

hisago(ひさご)
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

瓜 (uri)
Related Keywords
gourd general term calabashes bottle gourds annual vine cucurbitaceae family vessel dried hollowed container hollow