探

探 U+63A2, 探 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63A2 ← 採 [U+63A1] CJK Unified Ideographs 掣 → [U+63A3]

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

• 𠽄

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

trad.		探
simp. #		探
alternative forms		𢲘

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 𥥍 ().

As the initial of the 罙 phonetic series is uncertain, 探 (tàn) may be related to 深 (shēn) (provided the initial was *nh-) (Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, this agrees with Mizo tham (“to feel (especially with the hand)”).

探

1. to reach for; to grope for
2. to find; to locate
3. to search; to explore
4. to inquire
5. to visit
6. to scout; to spy
7. spy
8. to try
9. to extend; to stretch out

• → Vietnamese: thăm

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. look for

• Go-on: とん (ton)^{←とん (ton, historical)←とむ (tomu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan, Jōyō)^{←たん (tan, historical)←たむ (tamu, ancient)}
• Kun: さがす (sagasu, 探す, Jōyō)、さぐる (saguru, 探る, Jōyō)

探(たん) • (-tan) 

1. (archaic) spy from (a country)
   • 1947, Ango Sakaguchi, 『二十七歳』

     独(どく)探(たん)のケンギを受(う)けて、大(たい)正(しょう)五(ご)年(ねん)だかに国(こく)外(がい)退(たい)去(きょ)を命(めい)じられたという。

     Doku-tan no kengi o ukete, Taishō go-nen daka ni kokugai taikyo o meijirareta to iu.

     [He was] accused of being a German spy and was officially deported in some time around 1916, as the story goes.

From Middle Chinese 探 (MC thom). Recorded as Middle Korean 탐 (tham) (Yale: tham) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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探 (eumhun 찾을 탐 (chajeul tam))

1. hanja form^? of 탐 (“search”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

探: Hán Nôm readings: thám, phăm, thăm, thớm, xăm, xom, tham

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