挖掘机
wā jué jī
Pinyin

Definition

挖掘机
 - 
wā jué jī
  1. excavator

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

挖
wā
  1. 1 to dig
  2. 2 to excavate
  3. 3 to scoop out
挖掘
wā jué
  1. 1 to excavate
  2. 2 to dig
  3. 3 to unearth
挖掘机
wā jué jī
  1. 1 excavator
挖空
wā kōng
  1. 1 to excavate
  2. 2 to hollow
挖苦
wā kǔ
  1. 1 to speak sarcastically
  2. 2 to make cutting remarks
掘
jué
  1. 1 to dig
发掘
fā jué
  1. 1 to excavate
  2. 2 to explore
  3. 3 (fig.) to unearth
  4. 4 to tap into
挖土机
wā tǔ jī
  1. 1 excavator
  2. 2 backhoe
挖掉
wā diào
  1. 1 to dig out
  2. 2 to eradicate
挖洞
wā dòng
  1. 1 to dig a hole
挖墙脚
wā qiáng jiǎo
  1. 1 to undermine
  2. 2 to let someone down
  3. 3 to seduce someone away from something
挖穴
wā xué
  1. 1 to excavate
  2. 2 to dig out a cave
挖角
wā jué
  1. 1 to poach (talent, personnel from competitors)
  2. 2 to raid (a competitor for its talent)
  3. 3 Taiwan pr. [wā jiǎo]
挖开
wā kāi
  1. 1 to dig into
  2. 2 to cut a mine into
掘出
jué chū
  1. 1 to exhume
  2. 2 to unearth
  3. 3 to dig out
采掘
cǎi jué
  1. 1 to excavate
  2. 2 to extract (ore)
耳挖
ěr wā
  1. 1 earpick
  2. 2 curette
耳挖勺
ěr wā sháo
  1. 1 (dialect) earpick
  2. 2 curette
开挖
kāi wā
  1. 1 to dig out
  2. 2 to excavate
  3. 3 to scoop out
开掘
kāi jué
  1. 1 to excavate
  2. 2 to dig out
  3. 3 fig. to investigate (in an archive)

Idioms (7)

吃水不忘掘井人
chī shuǐ bù wàng jué jǐng rén
  1. 1 Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it. (idiom)
挖空心思
wā kōng xīn si
  1. 1 to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer
  2. 2 to rack one's brains
挖肉补疮
wā ròu bǔ chuāng
  1. 1 to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
掘墓鞭尸
jué mù biān shī
  1. 1 to exhume a body for public flogging (idiom)
罗掘
luó jué
  1. 1 to scrape around for money
  2. 2 hard pressed for cash
  3. 3 cf 羅雀掘鼠|罗雀掘鼠 to net birds and dig for rats (idiom)
罗雀掘鼠
luó què jué shǔ
  1. 1 lit. to net birds and dig for rats (idiom); fig. hard pressed for cash
  2. 2 on the verge of bankruptcy
临渴掘井
lín kě jué jǐng
  1. 1 lit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty
  2. 2 to be unprepared and seek help at the last minute (idiom)

Sample Sentences

不是起重机，是挖掘机。
bùshì qǐzhòngjī ，shì wājuéjī 。
It's not a crane, it's an excavator.
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