掘
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to dig
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 掘
- Common rank
- #2,611
- Unicode
- U+6398
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
excavate · Heisig RSH #2144
fingers + 屈 knuckle under
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 掘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吃水不忘掘井人 | Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom) | |
| 掘土机 | excavator | |
| 罗雀掘鼠 | (lit.) to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom); (fig.) to try every possible means of obt… | |
| 掘墓工人 | grave digger | |
| 发掘 | to excavate; to explore; (fig.) to unearth; to tap into | |
| 掘出 | to exhume; to unearth; to dig out | |
| 开掘 | to dig; to excavate; (fig.) to explore (archival materials) and unearth findings | |
| 罗掘 | to scrape together money (abbr. for 羅雀掘鼠|罗雀掘鼠[luo2 que4 jue2 shu3]) | |
| 数据挖掘 | data mining | |
| 掘客 | Digg (social news website) | |
| 挖掘机 | excavator; excavating machine | |
| 临渴掘井 | lit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty; to be unprepared and seek help at the last mi… | |
| 挖掘机械 | excavator; bulldozer | |
| 自掘坟墓 | to dig one's own grave | |
| 采掘 | to excavate; to extract (ore) | |
| 掘墓鞭尸 | to exhume a body for public flogging (idiom) | |
| 挖掘 | to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 屈 — compare how they read.