探
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to explore; to search out; to scout; to visit; to stretch forward
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 探
- Common rank
- #873
- Unicode
- U+63A2
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
spy · Heisig RSH #1076
fingers + paper punch + 木 tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 探
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 探口气 | to sound out opinions; to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning; also written 探… | |
| 探口风 | to sound out opinions; to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning | |
| 巴头探脑 | to poke one's head in and pry (idiom); to spy; nosy | |
| 探身子 | to bend forward; to lean out | |
| 探路者 | Pathfinder, NASA spacecraft sent to Mars in 1977 | |
| 探雷人员 | mine detector (employee) | |
| 空间探测器 | space probe | |
| 探头探脑儿 | erhua variant of 探頭探腦|探头探脑[tan4 tou2 tan4 nao3] | |
| 探子 | intelligence gatherer; spy; detective; scout; sound (medical instrument); long and narrow … | |
| 太空探索 | space exploration | |
| 探头 | to stick one's head out (from behind sth); to pop one's head in (through a window etc); pr… | |
| 探马 | mounted scout (arch.) | |
| 探家 | to make a trip home | |
| 探花 | candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]); (slang) to … | |
| 探长 | (police) detective | |
| 鬼探头 | (coll.) sudden emergence of a person or vehicle from a blind spot (esp. into oncoming traf… | |
| 探风 | to make inquiries about sb or sth; to fish for information | |
| 打探 | to make discreet inquiries; to scout out | |
| 探索性 | exploratory | |
| 神探 | master sleuth; lit. miraculous detective; cf Sherlock Holmes 福爾摩斯|福尔摩斯[Fu2 er3 mo2 si1] or… |