疏浚

shūjùn

verb #85,428

Meanings

HSK 3

这条河已经很多年没有疏浚了。

Zhè tiáo hé yǐjing hěnduō nián méiyou shūjùn le.

This river hasn't been dredged for many years.

HSK 7-9

港口每年都要疏浚航道，好让大船进出。

Gǎngkǒu měi nián dōu yào shūjùn hángdào, hǎo ràng dà chuán jìnchū.

The port dredges its shipping channel every year so that large ships can get in and out.

usage

疏 is to clear a blockage, as in 疏通, and 浚 is to deepen a waterway. It is an engineering word, as in 疏浚河道, to dredge a river channel.

mistakes

浚 is read jùn here. The same character is read Xùn in 浚县, a county in Henan.

疏 shū

浚 jùn