Kanji
N2 11 strokes Grade 8 freq #1257

dig, delve, excavate

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

hand te

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

excavation; exhumation
digging out; excavation
mining; digging
illegal digging; illegal mining
prospecting; trial digging

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

well digging; well digger
to dig; to excavate
(lucky) find; bargain
to dig down
to dig up; to unearth
to strike (gold, oil, etc.); to find (e.g. buried treasure)
to dig out; to pick up
to dig up; to turn up
inquisitively; pryingly

Example sentences

How many new sites were uncovered?

He dug a hole in the garden.

He dug a hole.

It's a catch.