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挖掘

wā jué

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

挖掘 (wā jué) means "to excavate; to dig; to unearth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挖掘 means

1. to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into

The characters in 挖掘

• 挖wāto dig; to excavate; to scoop out
• 掘juéto dig

Words starting with 挖掘

• 挖掘机wā jué jīexcavator
• 挖掘机械wā jué jī xièexcavator; bulldozer

Words containing 挖掘

• 数据挖掘shù jù wā juédata mining

Sounds the same

Read wā jué, tone for tone, but written differently.

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Where 挖掘 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuò–wá (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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