探

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 扌 (“hand”) + 穼 (“deep”) – to grope by hand in a deep cave. 穼 later simplified to 罙.

Han character

探 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手月金木 (QBCD), four-corner 5709₄, composition ⿰扌⿱㓁木)

1. find, locate
2. search, grope for

Related characters

• 深

References

• KangXi: page 438, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12276
• Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1907, character 6
• Unihan data for U+63A2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

探 (Yale taam3)

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Japanese

Kanji

探 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: たん (tan)
• Kun: さぐる (saguru), さがす (sagasu)

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Korean

Hanja

探 (hangeul 탐, revised tam, McCune-Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

探 (pinyin tàn (tan4), Wade-Giles t'an⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

探 (tham, thám, phăm, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom)