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探 kanji
grope, search, look for
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
タン
Kun readings
さぐるさがす
Words with 探
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —探針probe (device; electric, magnetic, sonic, etc.); probing needle; probe; sound
- —探餌(animal's) foraging
- —探春spring outing
- —探掘exploratory excavation; prospecting
- —探梅going out in search of plum blossoms; plum-blossom viewing
- —露探Russian spy (during the Russo-Japanese War)
- —探信transmission of a sonar pulse; pinging
- —探傷flaw detection
- —魚探fishfinder
- —金探metal detector
- —逆探call tracing
- —株探Kabutan (stock market information website)
- —逆探知phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call
- —探求者searcher; pursuer
- —探査機(space) probe
- —探索木search tree; decision tree
- —探知機detector; locator
- —探照灯searchlight
- —探究心inquisitive mind; spirit of inquiry; spirit of enquiry
- —探究者investigator; researcher