掘 jué
verb
to dig; to excavate
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '掘'; Guoyu '掘' v; Unihan '掘')
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- 掘土机(掘土機) excavator
- 挖掘机械(挖掘機械) excavator; bulldozer
- 罗掘(羅掘) to scrape around for money; hard pressed for cash; cf 羅雀掘鼠|罗雀掘鼠 to net birds and dig for rats (idiom)
- 采掘(採掘) to excavate
- 掘墓工人 grave digger
- 挖掘 to excavate
- 临渴掘井(臨渴掘井) not to dig a well until one is thirsty; to be unprepared and seek help at the last minute
- 掘墓鞭尸(掘墓鞭屍) to exhume a body for public flogging
- 罗雀掘鼠(羅雀掘鼠) to net birds and dig for rats; hard pressed for cash; on the verge of bankruptcy
- 挖掘机(挖掘機) an excavator
- 掘出 to exhume; to unearth; to dig out
- 发掘(發掘) to excavate; to explore
- 开掘(開掘) to excavate; to dig out
- 掘泥车(掘泥車) an excavator
- 数据挖掘(數據挖掘) data mining
- 自掘坟墓(自掘墳墓) to dig one's own grave
- 隧道掘进机(隧道掘進機) tunnel boring machine
- 吃水不忘掘井人 Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it.
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- 第六 禮儀下 大喪諸侯王列侯始封貴人公主薨 Volume 96: Etiquette Part Three Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 11
- 第一回 Chapter 1 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
- 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 6
- 第六十八回 Chapter 68 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第三十二回 Chapter 32 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 6
- 卷三十一 志第二十一 五行二 Volume 31 Treatises 21: Five Elements 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 5
- 卷三 秦一 Chapter 3: Qin I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 5
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 5
- 卷十八 志第十 祥瑞 Volume 18 Treatises 10: Auspicious Signs Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 5
- 士丧礼 第十二 12. Mourning rites for the common officer The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮 — count: 4
Collocations
- 掘地 (掘地) 禹掘地而注之海 — Mencius 孟子, 滕文公下 Teng Wen Gong II — count: 16
- 掘蛊 (掘蠱) 掘蠱太子宮 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《衛將軍驃騎列傳》 Biography of Cavalry General Wei — count: 7
- 掘井 (掘井) 辟若掘井 — Mencius 孟子, 盡心上 Jin Xin I — count: 5
- 掘冢 (掘冢) 鑄錢掘冢 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《游俠列傳》 Biographies of Knight-errants — count: 5
- 掘烧 (掘燒) 掘燒君王先人冢墓 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十二 奉使 Chapter 12: Receiving and Implementing Orders — count: 4
- 人掘 (人掘) 甸人掘坎于阶间 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 士丧礼 第十二 12. Mourning rites for the common officer — count: 3
- 掘药 (掘藥) 齊使老儒掘藥于馬梨之山 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 內儲說下六微第三十一 Chapter 31: A Collection of Sayings II — count: 3
- 铸钱掘 (鑄錢掘) 鑄錢掘冢 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《游俠列傳》 Biographies of Knight-errants — count: 2
- 掘君 (掘君) 君將掘君之偶錢 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十一 善說 Chapter 11: Virtuous Speech — count: 2
- 掘鼠 (掘鼠) 初尚掘鼠 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十八 虞傅蓋臧列傳 Volume 58: Biographies of Yu, Fu, Gai, Zang — count: 2