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There are 31 total results for your search in the dictionary.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

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    wa1
wa
to dig; to excavate; to scoop out

挖坑

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wā kēng
    wa1 keng1
wa k`eng
    wa keng
to dig a hole; (fig.) to make things difficult for sb; (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project

挖墳


挖坟

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wā fén
    wa1 fen2
wa fen
to dig a grave; (lit.) to dig up a grave; (fig.) (slang) to dig up an old thread (in an online forum etc)

挖掉

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wā diào
    wa1 diao4
wa tiao
to dig out; to eradicate

挖掘

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wā jué
    wa1 jue2
wa chüeh
to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into

挖機


挖机

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wā jī
    wa1 ji1
wa chi
excavator; excavating machine

挖洞

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wā dòng
    wa1 dong4
wa tung
to dig a hole

挖浚

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wā jun
    wa1 jun4
wa chün
to dredge

挖礦


挖矿

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wā kuàng
    wa1 kuang4
wa k`uang
    wa kuang
to mine ore or minerals; (computing) to mine cryptocurrency

挖穴

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wā xué
    wa1 xue2
wa hsüeh
to excavate; to dig out a cave

挖空

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wā kōng
    wa1 kong1
wa k`ung
    wa kung
to excavate; to hollow

挖苦

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wā kǔ
    wa1 ku3
wa k`u
    wa ku
to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks; also pr. [wa1 ku5]

挖角

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wā jué
    wa1 jue2
wa chüeh
to poach (talent, personnel from competitors); to raid (a competitor for its talent); Taiwan pr. [wa1 jiao3]

挖開


挖开

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wā kāi
    wa1 kai1
wa k`ai
    wa kai
to dig into; to cut a mine into

深挖

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shēn wā
    shen1 wa1
shen wa
to dredge

疏挖

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shū wā
    shu1 wa1
shu wa
to dredge; to dig out (a channel)

耳挖

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ěr wā
    er3 wa1
erh wa
earpick; curette

開挖


开挖

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kāi wā
    kai1 wa1
k`ai wa
    kai wa
to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out; to start digging

挖土機


挖土机

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wā tǔ jī
    wa1 tu3 ji1
wa t`u chi
    wa tu chi
excavator; backhoe

挖掘機


挖掘机

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wā jué jī
    wa1 jue2 ji1
wa chüeh chi
excavator

挖牆腳


挖墙脚

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wā qiáng jiǎo
    wa1 qiang2 jiao3
wa ch`iang chiao
    wa chiang chiao
to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something

挖鼻子

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wā bí zi
    wa1 bi2 zi5
wa pi tzu
to pick one's nose

挖泥船

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wā ní chuán
    wa1 ni2 chuan2
wa ni ch`uan
    wa ni chuan
dredger

挖耳勺

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wā ěr sháo
    wa1 er3 shao2
wa erh shao
ear pick

耳挖勺

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ěr wā sháo
    er3 wa1 shao2
erh wa shao
(dialect) earpick; curette

耳挖子

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ěr wā zi
    er3 wa1 zi5
erh wa tzu
earpick; curette

挖掘機械


挖掘机械

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wā jué jī xiè
    wa1 jue2 ji1 xie4
wa chüeh chi hsieh
excavator; bulldozer

挖空心思

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wā kōng xīn si
    wa1 kong1 xin1 si5
wa k`ung hsin ssu
    wa kung hsin ssu
to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer; to rack one's brains

挖肉補瘡


挖肉补疮

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wā ròu bǔ chuāng
    wa1 rou4 bu3 chuang1
wa jou pu ch`uang
    wa jou pu chuang
to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient

數據挖掘


数据挖掘

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shù jù wā jué
    shu4 ju4 wa1 jue2
shu chü wa chüeh
data mining

吃水不忘挖井人

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chī shuǐ bù wàng wā jǐng rén
    chi1 shui3 bu4 wang4 wa1 jing3 ren2
ch`ih shui pu wang wa ching jen
    chih shui pu wang wa ching jen
see 吃水不忘掘井人[chi1 shui3 bu4 wang4 jue2 jing3 ren2]

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 31 results for "挖" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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