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- intelligence gatherer
- spy
- detective
- scout
- sound (medical instrument)
- long and narrow probing and sampling utensil
- to investigate; to observe; to scout; to seek out and examine; to explore
- to check on sb at his workplace
- to come to a movie set to visit one of the actors
- candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2])
- (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet
Trad. 探頭
- to stick one's head out (from behind sth); to pop one's head in (through a window etc)
- probe; sensor
- master sleuth
- lit. miraculous detective
- cf Sherlock Holmes 福爾摩斯|福尔摩斯[Fu2 er3 mo2 si1] or Di Renjie 狄仁傑|狄仁杰[Di2 Ren2 jie2]
- to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc)
- a preliminary study
Trad. 窺探
- to pry into or spy on
- to snoop
- to peep
- to poke one's nose into
- to peer
- to get a glimpse of
Trad. 探口氣
- to sound out opinions
- to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning
- also written 探口風|探口风[tan4 kou3 feng1]
Trad. 探口風
- to sound out opinions
- to get sb's views by polite or indirect questioning
Trad. 鬼探頭
- (coll.) sudden emergence of a person or vehicle from a blind spot (esp. into oncoming traffic)
Trad. 陸探微
- Lu Tanwei (active c. 450-490), one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家
Trad. 巴頭探腦
- to poke one's head in and pry (idiom); to spy
- nosy
- to feel in one's pocket and take sth (idiom); as easy as pie
- in the bag
Trad. 探幽發微
- to probe deeply and uncover minute details
Trad. 探頭探腦
- to stick one's head out and look around (idiom)
Trad. 探驪得珠
- to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
- to see through to the nub
Trad. 探頭探腦兒
- erhua variant of 探頭探腦|探头探脑[tan4 tou2 tan4 nao3]