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探

探

Translingual

Han character

探 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手月金木 (QBCD), four-corner 57094, composition ⿰扌罙)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 438, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12276
  • Dae Jaweon: page 788, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1907, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+63A2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 探

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (罙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
探 *l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms
棎 *ɦljom
賝 *l̥ʰum
琛 *l̥ʰum
穼 *srum
深 *hljum, *hljums

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 扌 ‎(“hand”) + 穼 ‎(“deep”) – to grope by hand in a deep cave. 穼 later simplified to 罙.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 探
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 他含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /tʰʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /tʰəm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /tʰɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /tʰəm/
Li
Rong		 /tʰᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /tʰɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /tʰăm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tān
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 探
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ˤ[ə]m/
English put the hand into and test

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 探 探
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11249 11250
Phonetic
component		 罙 罙
Rime
group		 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 探 僋
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰuːm/ /*l̥ʰuːms/

Definitions

探

  1. to find; to locate
  2. to search; to grope for
  3. to visit

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

探

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. grope

Readings

Korean

Hanja

探 • ‎(tam) (hangeul 탐, revised tam, McCune-Reischauer t'am, Yale tham)

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Vietnamese

Han character

探 (thám, phăm, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom, tham)

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