Chinese symbol for “mining”
采矿
cǎi kuàng
Traditional: 採礦
mining
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mining is 采矿 (cǎi kuàng), defined as: mining.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “mining”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 采矿.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 采用 (採用) | cǎi yòng | to adopt; to employ |
| 采取 (採取) | cǎi qǔ | to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take |
| 采访 (採訪) | cǎi fǎng | to interview; to gather news |
| 采购 (採購) | cǎi gòu | to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase |
| 开采 (開採) | kāi cǎi | to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit |
| 采集 (採集) | cǎi jí | to gather; to collect |
| 煤矿 (煤礦) | méi kuàng | coal mine; coal seam |
| 矿产 (礦產) | kuàng chǎn | minerals |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mining”.
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.