勘察
kān​chá

reconnoiter

勘察 kān​chá
reconnoiter verb
to explore or scout an area to gather strategic or military information

侦察兵在战前对敌方的阵地进行了勘察。

zhēn​chá​bīng zài zhàn​qián duì dí​fāng de zhèn​dì jìn​xíng le kān​chá.

Scouts reconnoitered the enemy positions before the battle.

survey verb
to conduct an onsite investigation or field survey, particularly for engineering, construction, or scientific data collection

工程师在动工前对建筑场地进行了详细的勘察。

gōng​chéng​shī zài dòng​gōng qián duì jiàn​zhù chǎng​dì jìn​xíng le xiáng​xì de kān​chá.

The engineer conducted a detailed survey of the building site before construction began.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.890 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.03 per million

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Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)