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Keyword
dig
  • delve
  • excavate
Frequency
#1257
Strokes
11
Grade
8
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
1141
Readings
ほ60%
クツ40%
Mnemonic
A left hand bends over a shovel, scoops up the soil and keeps going down to dig a hole for the treasure.
Stroke order
Composed of
扌left hand屈bend
Used in vocabulary
発はっ掘くつ
excavation; exhumation; digging up; unearthing; discovery (of a new fact, talent, etc.); finding
Noun
根ね掘ほり葉は掘ほり
inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through
Expression
採さい掘くつ
mining; digging; working (a mine)
Noun
井い戸ど掘ほり
well digging; well digger
Noun
掘くっ削さく
digging out; excavation
Noun
掘ほる
to dig; to excavate; to hollow; to delve into; to dig up (vegetables, treasure, etc.); to mine (coal, ore, etc.)
Godan verb
掘ほり当あてる
to strike (gold, oil, etc.); to find (e.g. buried treasure); to dig up
Ichidan verb
盗とう掘くつ
illegal digging; illegal mining; grave robbing; tomb robbing
Noun
掘ほり出だし物もの
(lucky) find; bargain; good buy; treasure trove
Noun
試し掘くつ
prospecting; trial digging
Noun
掘ほり下さげる
to dig down; to dig into (a matter); to delve into; to probe into; to investigate; to get to the bottom of
Ichidan verb
掘ほり起おこす
to dig up; to unearth; to uncover
Godan verb
掘ほり出だす
to dig out; to pick up
Godan verb
掘ほり返かえす
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
Godan verb
深ふか掘ぼり
digging deeply (below the surface); mining deep; probing deeply (issue, problem); investigating thoroughly; deepening relations
Noun
掘ほっ立たて
erection of a pillar by sinking it directly into the ground
Noun
掘ほり進すすむ
to burrow through; to dig through
Godan verb
掘ほり割わり
canal; waterway; ditch
Noun
露ろ天てん掘ぼり
surface mining; open-cut mining; open-pit mining
Noun