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出土 chū to dig up / to appear in an excavation / unearthed / to come up out of the ground
to dig / to excavate / to scoop out
挖掘 jué to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into
zuān to drill / to bore / to get into / to make one's way into / to enter (a hole) / to thread one's way through / to study intensively / to dig into / to curry favor for personal gain
罗雀掘鼠 luó què jué shǔ lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
开动 kāi dòng to start / to set in motion / to move / to march / to dig in (eating) / to tuck in (eating)
tiǎo to raise / to dig up / to poke / to prick / to incite / to stir up
(literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)
páo to dig / to excavate / (coll.) to exclude / not to count / to deduct / to subtract
kōu to dig; to pick; to scratch (with a finger or sth pointed) / to carve; to cut / to study meticulously / stingy; miserly / to lift up (esp. the hem of a robe)
开挖 kāi to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out / to start digging
刨根问底 páo gēn wèn to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth
jué to dig
záo (bound form) chisel / to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig / (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable / also pr. [zuo4]
挖坑 kēng to dig a hole / (fig.) to make things difficult for sb / (neologism) (slang) (of a writer) to start work on a new project
to peel / to skin / to tear / to pull down / to cling to (sth on which one is climbing) / to dig
掘出 jué chū to exhume / to unearth / to dig out
自取灭亡 miè wáng to court disaster (idiom) / to dig one's own grave
凿井 záo jǐng to dig a well
挖穴 xué to excavate / to dig out a cave
打洞 dòng to punch a hole / to drill a hole / to dig a hole / to burrow
自掏腰包 tāo yāo bāo to pay out of one's own pocket / to dig into one's pocket
钻故纸堆 zuān zhǐ duī to dig into piles of outdated writings (idiom); to study old books and papers
文化层 wén huà céng cultural layer (in an archaeological dig)
探矿 tàn kuàng to prospect; to dig for coal or minerals


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