Chinese symbol for “poach”
挖角
wā jué
to poach (talent, personnel from competitors); to raid (a competitor for its talent); Taiwan pr. [wa1 jiao3]
The closest CC-CEDICT match for poach is 挖角 (wā jué), defined as: to poach (talent, personnel from competitors); to raid (a competitor for its talent); Taiwan pr. [wa1 jiao3].
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “poach”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 挖角.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 挖掘 | wā jué | to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into |
| 开挖 (開挖) | kāi wā | to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out; to start digging |
| 挖掘机 (挖掘機) | wā jué jī | excavator; excavating machine |
| 挖苦 | wā kǔ | to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks |
| 挖矿 (挖礦) | wā kuàng | to mine ore or minerals; (computing) to mine cryptocurrency |
| 挖洞 | wā dòng | to dig a hole |
| 角色 | jué sè | role; part (in a play or movie etc); also pr. [jiao3se4] |
| 角度 | jiǎo dù | angle; (fig.) point of view |
See also: Japanese symbol for “poach”.
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.