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试探 (shì tàn): meaning and stroke order

试探 (shì tàn) means to sound out, to probe, to feel out, to try out.

试探

Simplified
试探
Traditional
試探
Pinyin
shì tàn

Stroke order of 试探

试

  • shì to test; to try
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 試

Stroke by stroke

探

  • tàn to explore; to search out
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 试探

  1. shì tàn Traditional 試探
    • to sound out
    • to probe
    • to feel out
    • to try out

Radicals of the characters

试
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 讠 on the left, 式 on the right
探
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 罙 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

试探 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 她试探着跟父亲提起这件事，父亲马上说：“去吧！我身体好着呢，用不着你管。”

    tā shìtàn zhe gēn fùqīn tí qǐ zhè jiàn shì fùqīn mǎshàng shuō qù ba wǒ shēntǐ hǎo zhe ne yòngbuzháo nǐ guǎn

    She carefully raised the subject, and her father said at once, "Go! I'm perfectly healthy. You don't need to look after me."

    From the story No perfect answer HSK 6

Stories using 试探

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).