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探口风
tàn​kǒu​fēng

to sound out

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
探口风 探口風 tàn//kǒu​fēng
to sound out
To sound out someone's intentions or views; to try and find out something through indirect or polite questioning.

Frequency

Written text
0.019 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 探口气 tàn​kǒu​qi

Synonym

  • 探听 tàn​tīng

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)