wéi​kěn

to reclaim land

  • created sense approved 围垦/圍墾 · wéi​kěn · to reclaim land — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    围垦 / 圍墾

    wéi​kěn

    to reclaim land

    to reclaim land for farming or production by building dikes around beaches, lakefronts, or marshes

    围 (literal) → 围/圍 · wéi · to surround 垦 (literal) → 垦/墾 · kěn · to reclaim

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense