探
tàn HSK6

explore, find

探 tàn
stretch forward verb
to stretch forward or poke out a part of the body

他从窗口探出头来。

tā cóng chuāng​kǒu tàn chū tóu lái.

He poked his head out of the window.

visit verb
to visit someone, often to check on their well-being

过年了，他带了一些礼物去探了探几位老邻居。

guò​nián le, tā dài le yī​xiē lǐ​wù qù tàn le tàn jǐ wèi lǎo lín​jū.

Since it was the New Year, he brought some gifts to visit a few old neighbors.

explore verb
to explore, search out, or scout for information or locations

我打算一个人进那个古老的山洞里探个究竟。

wǒ dǎ​suàn yī gè rén jìn nà gè gǔ​lǎo de shān​dòng lǐ tàn gè jiū​jìng.

I plan to go into that ancient cave alone to find out what is inside.

Frequency
Character
Written text
917th most common 187.2 per million
Movie subtitles
543rd most common 258.9 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
183.0 per million appears in 24% of films
Written text
28.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+63A2

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)