| 挖 | wā | to dig; to excavate; to scoop out |
| 挖掘 | wā jué | to excavate; to dig; to unearth |
| 挖土机 | wā tǔ jī | excavator; backhoe |
| 挖空心思 | wā kōng xīn si | to dig for thoughts (idiom); to search everything for an answer; to rack one's brains |
| 挖苦 | wā kǔ | to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks |
| 挖掉 | wā diào | to dig out; to eradicate |
| 挖掘机械 | wā jué jī xiè | excavator; bulldozer |
| 挖洞 | wā dòng | to dig a hole |
| 挖浚 | wā jùn | to dredge |
| 挖墙脚 | wā qiáng jiǎo | to undermine; to let someone down; to seduce someone away from something |
| 挖穴 | wā xué | to excavate; to dig out a cave |
| 挖空 | wā kōng | to excavate; to hollow |
| 挖肉补疮 | wā ròu bǔ chuāng | to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient |
| 挖角 | wā jué | to poach (talent, personnel from competitors); to raid (a competitor for its talent); Taiwan pr. [wa1 jiao3] |
| 挖开 | wā kāi | to dig into; to cut a mine into |
| 挖鼻子 | wā bí zi | to pick one's nose |
| 数据挖掘 | shù jù wā jué | data mining |
| 深挖 | shēn wā | to dredge |
| 疏挖 | shū wā | to dredge; to dig out (a channel) |
| 开挖 | kāi wā | to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out |
