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掘 kanji
dig, delve, excavate
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
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On readings
クツ
Kun readings
ほる
Words with 掘
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1採掘Popularmining; digging; working (a mine)
- N1発掘Popularexcavation; exhumation; digging up; unearthing; discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.); finding; unearthing
- —掘削Populardigging out; excavation
- —試掘prospecting; trial digging
- —掘進tunnelling (through); excavation; drilling; boring
- —盗掘illegal digging; illegal mining; grave robbing; tomb robbing
- —乱掘overmining (e.g. of coal); reckless mining
- —掘採mining
- —探掘exploratory excavation; prospecting
- —洗掘scouring (of a riverbed or seafloor)
- —試掘者prospector
- —試掘権prospecting rights; mining claim
- —採掘権mining rights
- —掘削機excavator
- —発掘隊excavation team; dig team
- —掘足綱Scaphopoda (class of molluscs comprising the tooth shells)
- —採掘者miner
- —掘削船drillship
- —試掘坑test pit; pilot tunnel
- —採掘場mining site; quarry; diggings; stope