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打捞

dǎ lāo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 打撈

打捞 (dǎ lāo) means "to salvage; to dredge; to fish out (person or object from the sea)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 打捞 means

1. to salvage
2. to dredge
3. to fish out (person or object from the sea)

The characters in 打捞

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 捞lāoto fish up; to dredge up

Example sentences

• 船的残骸从海底被打捞上来。
  Chuán de cánhái cóng hǎidǐ bèi dǎlāo shànglái.
  The wreckage of the ship was salvaged after it had gone to Davy Jones's locker.

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