挖礦

挖礦

Chinese

		to dig; to excavate; to scoop out	ore; mine
trad. (挖礦)		挖	礦
simp. (挖矿)		挖	矿

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wākuàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄚ ㄎㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waat³ kwong³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wākuàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄚ ㄎㄨㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wakuàng
    • Wade–Giles: wa¹-kʻuang⁴
    • Yale: wā-kwàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uakuanq
    • Palladius: вакуан (vakuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wä⁵⁵ kʰwɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: waat³ kwong³
    • Yale: waat kwong
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waat⁸ kwong³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wad³ kuong³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waːt̚³ kʷʰɔːŋ³³/

Verb

挖⫽礦 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. to mine (to remove ore from the ground)
2. (computing, figurative) to mine (to earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations)

Synonyms

• (to remove ore from the ground): 採礦／采矿 (cǎikuàng)