Chinese symbol for “pry”
探听
tàn tīng
Traditional: 探聽
to make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pry is 探听 (tàn tīng), defined as: to make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “pry”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 讦 (訐) | jié | to accuse; to pry |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 探听.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 探测 (探測) | tàn cè | to probe; to survey |
| 探险 (探險) | tàn xiǎn | to explore; to go on an expedition |
| 探究 | tàn jiū | to investigate; to delve |
| 听到 (聽到) | tīng dào | to hear |
| 听说 (聽說) | tīng shuō | to hear (sth said); one hears (that) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pry”.
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.