挖掘机 (挖掘機)
wā jué jī
Pinyin

Definition

挖掘机 (挖掘機)
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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

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)

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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