Chinese symbol for “prospecting”
勘探
kān tàn
to explore; to survey; to prospect (for oil etc); prospecting
The closest CC-CEDICT match for prospecting is 勘探 (kān tàn), defined as: to explore; to survey; to prospect (for oil etc); prospecting.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “prospecting”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 勘探.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 勘察 | kān chá | to reconnoiter; to explore |
| 勘测 (勘測) | kān cè | to investigate; to survey |
| 勘查 | kān chá | variant of 勘察 (kān chá) |
| 探勘 | tàn kān | to explore; to survey |
| 校勘 | jiào kān | to collate |
| 探索 | tàn suǒ | to explore; to probe |
| 探讨 (探討) | tàn tǎo | to investigate; to probe |
| 侦探 (偵探) | zhēn tàn | detective; to do detective work |
See also: Japanese symbol for “prospecting”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.