挖

挖	U+6316, 挖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6316

← 挕
[U+6315]

CJK Unified Ideographs

挗 →
[U+6317]

Translingual

Han character

挖 (radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十金弓 (QJCN), four-corner 5301₇, composition ⿰扌穵)

Derived characters

𫪶

References

KangXi: page 431, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12070
Dae Jaweon: page 780, character 18
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1875, character 11
Unihan data for U+6316

Chinese

simp. and trad.		挖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乙) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
劜	*qreːd
札	*sqriːd
扎	*sqriːd
蚻	*ʔsriːd
紮	*ʔsriːd
軋	*qriːd
圠	*qriːd
穵	qriːd, qʷriːd
挖	*qʷriːd
鳦	qriːd, qrid
耴	ŋrid, teb
乙	*qriɡ
肊	*qrɯɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wā (wa¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waat³, waa¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yet / yat
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): iah / oat / oa

(Teochew, Peng'im): uai¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wā
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
  - Wade–Giles: wa¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: waat³, waa¹
  - Yale: waat, wā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waat⁸, waa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wad³, wa¹
  - IPA ^(key): /wäːt̚³/, /wäː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yet
  - Hakka Romanization System: ied`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yad⁵
  - IPA: /i̯et̚²/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yat
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)iad`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yad⁵
  - IPA: /(j)i̯at̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iah
  - Tâi-lô: iah
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iaq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /iaʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iaʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oat
  - Tâi-lô: uat
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oad
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /uat̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /uat̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa
  - Tâi-lô: ua
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oaf
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ua³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ua⁴⁴/

Note:

oat - literary;
iah - vernacular;
oa - vernacular (俗).

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: uai¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: uai
  - IPA ^(key): /uai³³/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 挖
Mandarin	Beijing	/ua⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ua⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/vɑ²¹/
	Jinan	/va²¹³/
	Qingdao	/va²¹³/ ～洞 /va⁵⁵/ ～飯
	Zhengzhou	/ua²⁴/
	Xi'an	/ua²¹/
	Xining	/ua⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/va⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/va¹³/
	Ürümqi	/va⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/ua⁵⁵/ ～苦 /ua²¹³/ ～土
	Chengdu	/ua⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/ua⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ua̠⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/uɑʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/uɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/uɑ¹³/
	Hohhot	/va³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/uaʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/uaʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔuɑʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/o²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/uaʔ²¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/uːə⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ua²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/uɒ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/uaʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/va⁴⁴/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/vet̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wat̚³/
	Nanning	/wɛt̚³³/ /wat̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/wat̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/uat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/uɑʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ua⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/uai³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/uak̚⁵/

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*qʷriːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	挖
Reading #	1/1
No.	14918
Phonetic component	乙
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	婠
Old Chinese	/*qʷriːd/
Notes	穵晚起分化字

Definitions

挖

to dig, to dig out, to gouge out, to scoop
挖耳屎 [Cantonese] ― waat³ ji⁵ si² [Jyutping] ― to remove ear wax

Compounds

挖土機／挖土机 (wātǔjī)
挖掉
挖掘 (wājué)
挖掘機／挖掘机 (wājuéjī)
挖槽機／挖槽机
挖泥船

挖潛／挖潜
挖牆腳／挖墙脚 (wāqiángjiǎo)
挖空心思 (wākōngxīnsī)
挖耳
挖肉補瘡／挖肉补疮

挖苦 (wākǔ)
挖補／挖补 (wābǔ)
挖角
挖角兒／挖角儿
挖通

References

“挖”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

挖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): あつ (atsu); あち (achi)
Kun: あばく (abaku, 挖く)

Vietnamese

Han character

挖 (oạt)

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