| 1189 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) | 
| 1276 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage | 
| 1943 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) | 
| 1265 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) | 
| 576 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) | 
| 1803 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) | 
| 1941 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) | 
| 1259 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) | 
| 897 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide | 
| 601 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 364 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 454 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) | 
| 1070 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) | 
| 12264 | Morohashi | 
| 496 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) | 
| 2204 | New Nelson (John Haig) | 
| 1061 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) | 
| 1141 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) | 
| 1438 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) | 
      Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
    
    
      JLPT level N2
    
    
      1257 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
    
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 採掘 【サイクツ】 mining, digging, working (a mine)
 - 盗掘 【トウクツ】 illegal digging, illegal mining, grave robbing, tomb robbing
 
Kun reading compounds
- 掘る 【ほる】 to dig, to excavate, to hollow, to delve into, to dig up (e.g. vegetables), (for two men) to have anal sex
 
Readings
- Japanese names:
 - ぼり
 
- Korean:
 - gul, gweol
 
Spanish
- cavar
 - excavar
 - taladrar
 - hurgar en
 
Portuguese
- cavar
 - cova
 - escavar
 
French
- creuser
 - fouiller
 - déterrer
 
| 1376 | 2001 Kanji | 
| 3c8.32 | The Kanji Dictionary | 
| 1-3-8 | SKIP code | 
| 5707.2 | Four corner code | 
| 1-23-01 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code | 
| 6398 | Unicode hex code |