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掘

jué

HSK 6 Character

What 掘 means

1. to dig

Example sentences

• 无事掘小，小事掘大。
  Wú shì jué xiǎo, xiǎoshì jué dà.
  When you have nothing, aim low; when you get somewhere, aim high.
• 我们在地上掘了一个洞。
  Wǒmen zài dìshàng jué le yī gè dòng.
  We dug a hole in the ground.
• 汤姆是位考古学家，在领导罗马附近的发掘项目。
  Tom is an archaeologist leading the excavations near Rome.
• 我敢打赌，在Tom Waits发掘它当幕后支援前你从来没有听说过斯特罗小提琴！无论如何，1920年代末前它采用了一个大型金属喇叭谐振器来代替木制音箱，以便它可以更好地被录音设备收音。
  Wǒ gǎn dǎdǔ, zài T om Waits fājué tā dāng mùhòu zhīyuán qián nǐ cóngláiméiyǒu tīngshuō guo sī tè luó xiǎotíqín! wúlùnrúhé,1920 niándài mò qián tā cǎiyòng le yī gè dàxíng jīnshǔ lǎba xiézhèn qì lái dàitì mùzhì yīnxiāng, yǐbiàn tā kěyǐ gèng hǎo de bèi lùyīn shèbèi shōuyīn.
  I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.

Words starting with 掘

• 掘出jué chūto exhume; to unearth; to dig out
• 掘客Jué kèDigg (social news website)
• 掘土机jué tǔ jīexcavator
• 掘墓工人jué mù gōng réngrave digger
• 掘墓鞭尸jué mù biān shīto exhume a body for public flogging (idiom)

Words containing 掘

• 挖掘wā juéto excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into
• 发掘fā juéto excavate; to explore; (fig.) to unearth
• 开掘kāi juéto dig; to excavate; (fig.) to explore (archival materials) and unearth findings
• 采掘cǎi juéto excavate; to extract (ore)
• 罗掘luó juéto scrape together money (abbr. for 罗雀掘鼠
• 挖掘机wā jué jīexcavator
• 挖掘机械wā jué jī xièexcavator; bulldozer
• 数据挖掘shù jù wā juédata mining
• 临渴掘井lín kě jué jǐnglit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty; to be unprepared and seek help at the last…
• 罗雀掘鼠luó què jué shǔ(lit.) to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom); (fig.) to try every possible means of…
• 自掘坟墓zì jué fén mùto dig one's own grave
• 吃水不忘掘井人chī shuǐ bù wàng jué jǐng rénDrinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)

Characters built on 屈

These share the phonetic component 屈 (qū), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 崛juétowering as a peak
• 倔juéused in 倔强

Characters that look like 掘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 据jùaccording to; to act in accordance with; to depend on
• 握wòto hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control
• 揭jiēto take the lid off; to expose; to unmask
• 捣dǎoto pound; to beat; to hull
• 猖chāngferocious
• 琚jūornamental gems for belt

Sounds the same

Read jué, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 觉to feel; to find that; thinking
• 决to decide; to determine; to execute (sb)
• 绝to cut short; extinct; to disappear
• 倔used in 倔强
• 爵ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle; nobility
• 角role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel
• 脚role (variant of 角
• 诀to bid farewell; tricks of the trade; pithy mnemonic formula…
• 厥to faint; to lose consciousness; his
• 蕨Pteridium aquilinum; bracken
• 攫to seize; to snatch; to grab
• 崛towering as a peak