挖

挖	U+6316, 挖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6316

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[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)

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 (POJ): iah / oat / oa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wā
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ
  - Wade-Giles: wa¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ua
  - IPA ^(key): /u̯a̠⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: waat³, waa¹
  - Yale: waat, wā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waat⁸, waa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wad³, wa¹
  - IPA ^(key): /wɑːt̚³/, /wɑː⁵⁵/
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, mainstream 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).

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
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

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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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