开垦
kāi​kěn HSK7

to reclaim wasteland

开垦 開墾 kāi​kěn
to reclaim wasteland verb
to clear a wild area for cultivation; to put under the plow; to turn wasteland into farmland

很多土地已经开垦了几千年。

hěn​duō tǔ​dì yǐ​jing kāi​kěn le jǐ qiān​nián.

Many lands have been cultivated for thousands of years.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.09 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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