"To dig out" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 开挖 | kāi wā | to dig out / to excavate / to scoop out |   |
| 开掘 | kāi jué | to excavate / to dig out / fig. to investigate (in an archive) | |
| 挖掉 | wā diào | to dig out / to eradicate | |
| 抠 |  kōu | to dig out / to pick out (with one's fingers) / to carve / to cut / to study meticulously / to lift one's clothes / stingy / miserly | |
| 疏挖 | shū wā | to dredge / to dig out (a channel) | |
| 掘出 | jué chū | to exhume / to unearth / to dig out | |
