掏 (tāo) means “to fish out (from pocket); to scoop”. It is an HSK 6 Chinese character in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
他从口袋里掏出了手机。
Tā cóng kǒudài lǐ tāo chū le shǒujī.
He fished out his phone from his pocket.
Updated: 2026-05-27