勺 (sháo): thìa

Mom used a spoon to scoop up a spoonful of soup, tasted it, felt it was a bit bland, so she added a little more salt.

While eating ice cream, my younger brother accidentally dropped his spoon on the floor, so he had to go to the kitchen to get a new one.

In Western meals, the spoon is usually placed outside the knife and used for soup; in Chinese meals, a porcelain spoon is often used and placed in the bowl or on a chopstick rest.

Grandma always uses that wooden spoon when serving rice, saying it doesn't burn her hand and is just the right size—one spoonful is exactly the amount for a bowl of rice.