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Mythic Mandarin

探亲 (tàn qīn): meaning and stroke order

探亲 (tàn qīn) means to go home to visit one's family.

探亲

Simplified
探亲
Traditional
探親
Pinyin
tàn qīn

Stroke order of 探亲

探

  • tàn to explore; to search out
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

亲

  • qīn parent; one's own (flesh and blood)
  • qìng parents-in-law of one's offspring
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 親

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 探亲

  1. tàn qīn Traditional 探親
    • to go home to visit one's family

Radicals of the characters

探
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 罙 on the right
亲
Radical 亠 (Kangxi radical 8) · 9 strokes · 立 on top, 木 below

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.

探亲 in our stories

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  • 去年春节，她回国探亲。在老家的饭桌上，亲戚们问她：“什么时候回来定居？”

    qùnián Chūnjié tā huí guó tànqīn zài lǎojiā de fànzhuō shàng qīnqi men wèn tā shénme shíhou huílai dìngjū

    Last Spring Festival she went back to China to see her family. At the dinner table in her hometown, relatives asked, "When are you coming back for good?"

    From the story Two homes HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 探亲

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).