掘 — Chinese character
掘
jué
to dig, to excavate
- Pinyin
- jué
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 扌 屈
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 屈
- Japanese
- 掘 as a kanji
Common words with 掘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发掘 (發掘) | fā jué | to excavate; to explore |
| 挖掘 | wā jué | to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into |
| 挖掘机 (挖掘機) | wā jué jī | excavator; excavating machine |
| 采掘 (採掘) | cǎi jué | to excavate; to extract (ore) |
| 开掘 (開掘) | kāi jué | to dig; to excavate; (fig.) to explore (archival materials) and unearth findings |
| 数据挖掘 (數據挖掘) | shù jù wā jué | data mining |
| 自掘坟墓 (自掘墳墓) | zì jué fén mù | to dig one's own grave |
| 掘出 | jué chū | to exhume; to unearth |
| 挖掘机械 (挖掘機械) | wā jué jī xiè | excavator; bulldozer |
| 掘土机 (掘土機) | jué tǔ jī | excavator |
| 掘墓工人 | jué mù gōng rén | grave digger |
| 掘墓鞭尸 (掘墓鞭屍) | jué mù biān shī | to exhume a body for public flogging (idiom) |
English words written with 掘
掘 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.