探
tàntān HSK6

explore, find

探 tàn frequency
to explore verbnoun
to explore; to search out; to scout; to seek or investigate
detective noun
(bound form) a person who gathers intelligence or investigates; a spy; a detective
to visit verb
to visit; to call on; to see someone to check on their well-being
to spy or scout verb
to scout; to spy; to reconnoiter; to surreptitiously investigate
to probe verbadjective
to test; to sound out; to probe (someone's opinion, water temperature, etc.)
to stretch forward verb
to stretch or pop forward; to crane one's neck or lean out

把头探出窗户，不停地喊。

bǎ tóu tàn chū chuāng​hu, bù​tíng de hǎn.

Stick your head out of the window and keep yelling.

to reach into
to reach into with the hand to feel for or fetch something
探 tān
to test
(literary) to test; to try; to put one's hand into something to test it

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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
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)