挖
wā
Pinyin

Definition

挖
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wā
  1. to dig
  2. to excavate
  3. to scoop out

Character Decomposition

Related Words (15)

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
挖土机
wā tǔ jī
  1. 1 excavator
  2. 2 backhoe

Idioms (2)

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

Sample Sentences

我......我就挖掘新客户！
wǒ ......wǒ jiù wājué Xīn kèhù ！
I...I'll find new customers!
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土部的“地”，用力地挖土。
tǔ bù de “de ”，yònglì de wā tǔ 。
The "de" with the earth radical, digging earth heartedly.
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你不会说闽南话吧？欧品康听起来就是闽南话的“挖鼻孔”啊！
nǐ búhuì shuō mǐnnánhuà ba ？Ōupǐnkāng tīng qǐlai jiùshì mǐnnánhuà de “wā bíkǒng ”ā ！
You don't speak the fujianese dialect do you? "ou pin kang" sounds like "pick your nose" in fujianese.
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是啊，他们都在挖空心思地搞特色比创意。而对于我们食客来说，不仅可以享受到美食，还能欣赏到特色表演，花一样的钱享受两种服务，何乐而不为啊？
shì a ，tāmen dōu zài wākòngxīnsī de gǎo tèsè bǐ chuàngyì 。ér duìyú wǒmen shíkè láishuō ，bùjǐn kěyǐ xiǎngshòudào měishí ，hái néng xīnshǎngdào tèsè biǎoyǎn ，huā yīyàng de qián xiǎngshòu liǎng zhǒng fúwù ，hélè ér bùwéi a ？
Yeah. They all rack their brains to do something distinctive and creative. And as far as we diners are concerned, not only can we enjoy good food, we can also enjoy special performances. You spend the same about of money and you can enjoy two services, what's so bad about that?
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当然是买来的！现在比特币越来越难挖了，挖矿比的是计算机的性能，投资几万块买挖矿机说不定几年都收不回成本。我就是小玩一把，收藏几个。现在不是股市楼市黄金都不景气了吗，关注下比特币。
dāngrán shì mǎi lai de ！xiànzài bǐtèbì yuèláiyuè nán wā le ，wākuàng bǐ de shì jìsuànjī de xìngnéng ，tóuzī jǐ wànkuài mǎi wākuàngjī shuōbudìng jǐnián dōu shōubùhuí chéngběn 。wǒ jiùshì xiǎo wán yī bǎ ，shōucáng jǐ ge 。xiànzài bùshì gǔshì lóushì huángjīn dōu bù jǐngqì le ma ，guānzhùxià bǐtèbì 。
Of course I bought them. Nowadays Bitcoins are becoming more and more difficult to mine. Mining for Bitcoins is a task for computers. If you invest tens of thousands of kuai to buy a machine to mine Bitcoins, you won't necessarily get a return on your investment for years. I'm just playing around with it a bit and collecting a few. Nowadays aren't the stock market, real estate and gold all in decline? The focus is on Bitcoin.
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哇，你好高端！原来有个比特币玩家潜藏在我们办公室啊！快说，你的比特币是挖矿挖来的还是用人民币买来的？
wā ，nǐ hǎo gāoduān ！yuánlái yǒu gè bǐtèbì wánjiā qiáncáng zài wǒmen bàngōngshì a ！kuài shuō ，nǐ de bǐtèbì shì wākuàng wā lái de háishì yòng rénmínbì mǎi lai de ？
Whoa, you're so fancy! So there's been a Bitcoin speculator hiding in our office all along! Tell us, did you mine your Bitcoins or did you use renminbi to buy them?
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他跟你海阔天空，扯到最后的话，你就发现，哦，原来不止你有这个需求，也许你爸爸也有这个需求，你妈妈也有这个需求，哎，你小孩也有哦。那么你原来可能买一个人，最后可能买了四个人。对吧？那么他是在跟这个客户的交流当中去挖掘需求。
tā gēn nǐ hǎikuòtiānkōng ，chě dào zuìhòu dehuà ，nǐ jiù fāxiàn ，ò ，yuánlái bùzhǐ nǐ yǒu zhè ge xūqiú ，yěxǔ nǐ bàba yě yǒu zhè ge xūqiú ，nǐ māma yě yǒu zhè ge xūqiú ，āi ，nǐ xiǎohái yě yǒu ò 。nàme nǐ yuánlái kěnéng mǎi yī ge rén ，zuìhòu kěnéng mǎi le sì gè rén 。duìba ？nàme tā shì zài gēn zhè ge kèhù de jiāoliú dāngzhōng qù wājué xūqiú 。
She's rambling all over the place, until at the end, you discover that it's not just you that has this need. Maybe your dad has this need, and oh, your child has it too. So originally you were going to sell to one person, but now you might sell to four people. Right? So you have to uncover the needs over the course of communication with the customer.
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动作也很不雅，不是挖鼻子就是挖耳朵。走路还外八字。
dòngzuò yě hěn bùyǎ ，bùshì wā bízi jiùshì wā ěrduo 。zǒulù hái wàibāzì 。
Her behavior wasn't very elegant, either, and she was always picking her nose or ears. She also walked with her toes pointed out.
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钱总，我们已经委托了猎头公司，但还没得到满意的答复。不过即使高薪从对手公司挖来人才，也不一定能很快了解我们公司的情况。
Qián zǒng ，wǒmen yǐjīng wěituō le liètóu gōngsī ，dàn hái méi dédào mǎnyì de dáfù 。bùguò jíshǐ gāoxīn cóng duìshǒu gōngsī wā lái réncái ，yě bù yīdìng néng hěnkuài liǎojiě wǒmen gōngsī de qíngkuàng 。
We've already hired a headhunting agency, President Qian, but we still haven't received any satisfactory responses. However, even if we're able to use a high salary to poach a talented person from a competing company, they won't necessarily be able to quickly get acclimated to our company.
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刚才和大家分享了挖掘潜在利润的重要性，那接下来，我想把一些问题细化。首先一个就是如何正确定位目标消费群，这也是我们做任何营销的先决条件。那么，谁是我们的目标消费群？这个消费群最希望从我们新一代阿尔法电脑产品中得到什么？
gāngcái hé dàjiā fēnxiǎng le wājué qiánzài lìrùn de zhòngyàoxìng ，nà jiē xiàlái ，wǒ xiǎng bǎ yīxiē wèntí xìhuà 。shǒuxiān yī gè jiùshì rúhé zhèngquè dìngwèi mùbiāo xiāofèiqún ，zhè yě shì wǒmen zuò rènhé yíngxiāo de xiānjuétiáojiàn 。nàme ，shéi shì wǒmen de mùbiāo xiāofèiqún ？zhè ge xiāofèiqún zuì xīwàng cóng wǒmen xīnyīdài ā\'ěrfǎ diànnǎo chǎnpǐn zhōng dédào shénme ？
I've just explained the importance of latent profits. Moving on, I'd like to go into a few problems in further detail. The first is how to properly align ourselves with our target consumers. This is also a prerequisite to any marketing we do. Now, who are our target consumers? What do these target consumers hope to get out of the next generation of products from Alpha Computers?
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