侦
zhēn HSK7

spy

侦 (偵) zhēn
detect verb
to investigate or uncover facts, especially in a legal or criminal context

为了及早侦破案件，刑警们已经好几天没睡觉了。

wèi​le jí​zǎo zhēn pò àn​jiàn, xíng​jǐng men yǐ​jīng hǎo​jǐ tiān méi shuì​jiào le.

To solve the case as quickly as possible, the criminal police have not slept for several days.

scout verb
to scout or gather information secretly, often for military or intelligence purposes

通信连的战士正在树林里隐蔽，秘密侦听敌情。

tōng​xìn lián de zhàn​shì zhèng​zài shù​lín lǐ yǐn​bì, mì​mì zhēn tīng dí​qíng.

The soldiers from the communications company are hiding in the woods, secretly monitoring enemy movements.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,479th most common 74.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,357th most common 54.1 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.40 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.40 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
偵
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+4FA6

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