บ่อ เจาะ
“บ่อ เจาะ” (бо джо) — borehole; well (drilled) in Thai. Noun, level B1. Literally "pit drilled": a borehole for water and for oil. The well the Thai calls otherwise — simply a "water pit". In a live sentence: “บ่อ เจาะ ของ หมู่ บ้าน แห้ง แล้ว” — The village borehole has dried up. Written with the characters บ, ่, อ, เ, จ, า, ะ. A word from the everyday Thai course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Thai | บ่อ เจาะ |
| Read in Latin letters | бо джо |
| Translation | borehole; well (drilled) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Literally "pit drilled": a borehole for water and for oil. The well the Thai calls otherwise — simply a "water pit"
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- บ่อ เจาะ ของ หมู่ บ้าน แห้ง แล้วбо джо кхонг муу бан кхэнг лаэоThe village borehole has dried up
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “borehole; well (drilled)” in Thai?
«บ่อ เจาะ», read “бо джо”. In a live sentence: “บ่อ เจาะ ของ หมู่ บ้าน แห้ง แล้ว” — The village borehole has dried up. Noun, level B1; written with the characters บ, ่, อ, เ, จ, า, ะ.
How is “บ่อ เจาะ” written in Latin letters?
бо джо. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Literally "pit drilled": a borehole for water and for oil. The well the Thai calls otherwise — simply a "water pit". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.