探 tàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
探望
tànwàng
to visit; to call on
Characters in this word
望 wàng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 她每周去医院探望父亲，却从不在病房里抱怨工作。 Tā měi zhōu qù yīyuàn tànwàng fùqīn, què cóng bù zài bìngfáng lǐ bàoyuàn gōngzuò. She visits her father in hospital every week, yet never complains about work in the ward.
- 周末我打算去养老院探望那里的老人们。 Zhōumò wǒ dǎsuàn qù yǎnglǎoyuàn tànwàng nàlǐ de lǎorénmen. This weekend I plan to visit the elderly people at the nursing home.
- 他出差刚回来，就先去探望生病的老师。 Tā chūchāi gāng huílái, jiù xiān qù tànwàng shēngbìng de lǎoshī. As soon as he got back from his business trip, he went to visit his sick teacher.
Related words
- 探索 tànsuǒ to explore
- 探讨 tàntǎo to discuss, to deliberate
- 勘探 kāntàn to prospect; to explore
- 试探 shìtan to test; to probe
- 探 tàn to probe; to explore; to look into
- 探测 tàncè to detect; to survey; to probe
- 探究 tànjiū to investigate; to explore deeply
- 探亲 tànqīn to visit relatives
- 探求 tànqiú to seek; to pursue
- 探险 tànxiǎn to explore; to go on an expedition
- 侦探 zhēntàn detective; to detect; to investigate
- 希望 xīwàng to hope; hope