发掘 meaning in English

fājué

to excavate; to explore

HSK 7-9verbTraditional 發掘16 strokes

Meaning of 发掘

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fājué

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

汤tāng姆mǔ是shì位wèi考kǎo古gǔ学xué家jiā，在zài领lǐng导dǎo罗luó马mǎ附fù近jìn的de发fā掘jué项xiàng目mù。

Tom is an archaeologist leading the excavations near Rome.

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Words that share a character with 发掘.

发现	fāxiàn	to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect
出发	chūfā	to set off; to start (on a journey); (fig.) to proceed from (a particular standpoint or ba
头发	tóufa	hair (on the head)
发生	fāshēng	to happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 發生問題\|发生问题[fa1 sheng1 wen4 ti2] "a probl
发展	fāzhǎn	development; growth
发出	fāchū	to issue (an order, decree etc); to send out; to dispatch; to produce (a sound); to let ou
发明	fāmíng	to invent; an invention
沙发	shāfā	(loanword) sofa (CL:條\|条[tiao2],張\|张[zhang1]); (Internet slang) first reply to a forum post
发表	fābiǎo	to issue; to publish
发动	fādòng	to start; to launch
发送	fāsòng	to transmit; to dispatch
开发	kāifā	to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop

What does 发掘 mean?

发掘 (fājué) means "to excavate; to explore" and is used as a verb.

How do you write 发掘?

发掘 is made of 2 characters: 发 (5 strokes), 掘 (11 strokes). That is 16 strokes in total.

Is 发掘 an HSK word?

Yes. 发掘 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.

How is 发掘 written in traditional Chinese?

In traditional characters, 发掘 is written 發掘.