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Chinese Vocabulary

挖

to dig

挖
wā1st tone
Pinyin
wā
Strokes
9
In episodes
1

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挖 is written with 9 strokes. The animation replays automatically.

Usage

A story word from the script. Used in 挖古墓 (dig up an ancient tomb).

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挖 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.

小说里有人挖古墓,拿好东西。

In novels, some people dig up ancient tombs and take good things.

A Hubei Man Copies Tomb-Robbing Novels and Gets Twelve Years in Prison

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