探 tàn

1. tàn verb to visit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 看望; for example, 探亲 'to visit family' (Guoyu '探' v 5)
2. tàn verb to seek; to find; to search; to grope for
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 寻求; for example, 探路 'find the path' (Guoyu '探' v 1; Unihan '探')
3. tàn verb to study; to examine
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 推究 (Guoyu '探' v 2)
4. tàn verb to inquire
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 打听 (Guoyu '探' v 3)
5. tàn noun a detective; an agent; an investigator
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 侦探 'detective' (Guoyu '探' n)
6. tān verb to try
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 试 (Guoyu '探' tān v 1)
7. tān verb to stretch forward
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 伸出 (Guoyu '探' tān v 2)

Contained in

• 探险者(探險者) an explorer
• 探秘(探祕) to explore a mystery; to probe the unknown
• 一探究竟 to check out; to investigate
• 探伤(探傷) to inspect metal for flaws (using X-ray or ultrasound etc)
• 探险家(探險家) explorer
• 探友 to visit a friend
• 探针(探針) probe
• 探照灯(探照燈) a searchlight
• 探口气(探口氣) to sound out opinions; to get somebody's views by polite or indirect questioning
• 探家 to make a trip home
• 探寻(探尋) to search; to seek; to explore
• 探路 to find the path ; to make inquiries
• 钻探机(鑽探機) drilling machine
• 探子 intelligence gatherer; spy; detective; scout; sound (medical instrument); long and narrow probing and sampling utensil
• 探花 candidate who came third in the Han-lin examination
• 探究 to investigate; to delve; to probe; to enquire into; to look into
• 探视(探視) to visit (a patient, prisoner etc); to look inquiringly
• 暗探 a detective ; to spy
• 探取 an overdraft ; to explore; to probe
• 空间探测(空間探測) space probe
• 探索性 exploratory
• 侦探(偵探) a detective
• 勘探 to explore
• 探马(探馬) mounted scout (arch.)
• 探井 test pit; exploratory shaft; test well
• 探看 to visit; to go to see what's going on
• 探索时代(探索時代) Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration
• 探月 lunar exploration
• 探身子 to bend forward; to lean out
• 探口风(探口風) to sound out opinions; to get somebody's views by polite or indirect questioning
• 探望 to visit; to call on
• 半导体探测器(半導體探測器) semiconductor detector
• 探骊得珠(探驪得珠) to pluck a pearl from the black dragon; to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
• 探问(探問) to inquire into; to ask after
• 探头探脑儿(探頭探腦兒) to ake a quick look around
• 刺探 to pry into; to spy on; to probe into
• 探赜索隐(探賾索隱) to search for hidden mysteries
• 查探 to check; to investigate; to probe
• 探视权(探視權) visitation rights
• 探头探脑(探頭探腦) take a quick look around
• 探察 to investigate; to observe; to scout; to seek out and examine; to explore
• 钻探(鑽探) to drill
• 探测(探測) to survey; to probe
• 探幽穷赜(探幽窮賾) to search for hidden mysteries
• 窥探(窺探) to pry into or spy on; to snoop; to peep; to poke one's nose into; to peer; to get a glimpse of
• 打探 to make discreet inquiries; to scout out
• 探讨(探討) to investigate; to probe
• 探求 to seek; to pursue; to investigate

Also contained in

中石油川东钻探公司 、 资料探勘 、 伽利略探测器

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第二回 Chapter 55 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 40
• 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 36
• 第二回 Chapter 56 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 24
• 第二回 Chapter 73 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 23
• 第二回 Chapter 74 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 23
• 第二回 Chapter 37 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 19
• 第二回 Chapter 83 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 18
• 第二回 Chapter 27 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
• 第二回 Chapter 70 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 14
• 第二回 Chapter 81 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 13

Collocations

• 探汤 (探湯) 見不善如探湯 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 16. 《季氏》 Ji Shi — count: 9
• 探爵 (探爵) 景公探爵鷇 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷五 貴德 Chapter 5: Valuing Virtue — count: 5
• 探策 (探策) 如博士探策講試以求爵位邪 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四十二 蜀書十二　　杜周杜許孟來尹李譙郤傳 Volume 42: Book of Shu 12 - Biographies of Du, Zhou, Du, Xu, Meng, Lai, Yin, Li, Qiao, and Xi — count: 4
• 探筹 (探籌) 探籌 — Xunzi 荀子, 君道篇第十二 Chapter 12: The Way of the Sovereign — count: 3
• 欲探 (欲探) 議欲探籌 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十四 鄧張徐張胡列傳 Volume 44: Biographies of Deng, Zhang, Xu, Zhang, Hu — count: 3
• 人探 (人探) 使人探之 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十二下 方術列傳 Volume 82b: Biographies of Alchemists 2 — count: 3
• 探幽 (探幽) 陛下探幽析微 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十六 郭陳列傳 Volume 46: Biographies of Guo, Chen — count: 3
• 探鷇 (探鷇) 大人過之則探鷇 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八　人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 2
• 隗探 (隗探) 劉隗探會上意 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十九 志第十九 五行下 Volume 29 Treatises 19: Five Elements Part Three — count: 2
• 探虎口 (探虎口) 此所謂探虎口者也 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《酈生陸賈列傳》 Biographies of Li Yiji and Lu Gu — count: 2