探

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𠽄

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		探
simp. #		探
alternative forms		𢲘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (罙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
探	*l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms
棎	*ɦljom
賝	*l̥ʰum
琛	*l̥ʰum
穼	*srum
深	*hljum, *hljums

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 𥥍 ().

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 探

1. to find; to locate
2. to search; to grope for
3. to visit

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

探

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. grope

Readings

• Go-on: とん (ton)^{←とん (ton, historical)←とむ (tomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan, Jōyō)^{←たん (tan, historical)←たむ (tamu, ancient)}
• Kun: さがす (sagasu, 探す, Jōyō); さぐる (saguru, 探る, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 探 (thám, phăm, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom, tham)

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