Chinese symbol for “drilling”
凿岩
záo yán
Traditional: 鑿岩
(rock) drilling
The closest CC-CEDICT match for drilling is 凿岩 (záo yán), defined as: (rock) drilling.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “drilling”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 凿岩.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开凿 (開鑿) | kāi záo | to cut (a canal, tunnel, well etc) |
| 确凿 (確鑿) | què záo | definite; conclusive |
| 凿井 (鑿井) | záo jǐng | to dig a well |
| 凿子 (鑿子) | záo zi | chisel |
| 言之凿凿 (言之鑿鑿) | yán zhī záo záo | (idiom) to speak with conviction |
| 岩石 | yán shí | (geology) rock |
| 岩浆 (岩漿) | yán jiāng | (geology) magma |
| 花岗岩 (花崗岩) | huā gāng yán | granite |
See also: Japanese symbol for “drilling”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.