探
探 — tam
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 찾을 탐
- Romanization
- tam
- English
- find, locate; search, grope for
- Mandarin
- tàn
- Japanese on'yomi
- タン, トン, セン, ゼン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さぐ.る さが.す
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #930 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 (64, 8 residual)
- Unicode
- U+63A2
How 探 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 探 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 手, 𥥍.
Korean example words with 探
- 밀탐密探 Korean gloss: 남몰래 정탐함
- 내탐內探 Korean gloss: 남모르게 살펴봄
- 맹탐盲探 Korean gloss: 덮어놓고 뒤지거나 찾음
- 탐승探勝 Korean gloss: 경치 좋은 곳을 찾아다님
- 과탐科探 Korean gloss: ‘과학 탐구 영역’을 줄여 이르는 말
- 사탐社探 Korean gloss: ‘사회 탐구 영역’을 줄여 이르는 말
- 수탐數探 Korean gloss: ‘수리 탐구 영역’을 줄여 이르는 말
- 반탐反探 Korean gloss: 적의 간첩, 밀정, 탐정 따위에 반대함
- 탐구探究 Korean gloss: 진리, 학문 따위를 파고들어 깊이 연구함
- 수탐搜探 Korean gloss: 무엇을 알아내거나 찾기 위하여 조사하거나 엿봄
- 탐조探照 Korean gloss: 무엇을 밝히거나 찾아내기 위하여 빛을 멀리 비춤
- 탐보探報 Korean gloss: 알려지지 않은 사실 따위를 찾아내 알려 주는 사람
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 探
- 探検たんけん exploration; expedition
- 探査たんさ probe; inquiry; enquiry
- 探すさがす to search for; to look for; to hunt for
- 探偵たんてい detective; investigator; sleuth
- 手探りてさぐり fumbling; groping
- 探求たんきゅう search; quest; pursuit
- 探究たんきゅう research; investigation; enquiry
- 探索たんさく search; lookup; hunt
- 探知たんち detection
- 探知機たんちき detector; locator
- 逆探知ぎゃくたんち phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call
- 探し求めるさがしもとめる to search for; to seek for; to look for
Other hanja read “탐”
Other hanja with radical 手
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences