Chinese symbol for “sniff”
嗅探
xiù tàn
to sniff (in order to find sth)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sniff is 嗅探 (xiù tàn), defined as: to sniff (in order to find sth).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “sniff”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嗅 | xiù | to smell; to sniff |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 嗅探.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 嗅觉 (嗅覺) | xiù jué | sense of smell |
| 嗅盐 (嗅鹽) | xiù yán | smelling salts |
| 嗅探犬 | xiù tàn quǎn | sniffer dog |
| 嗅球 | xiù qiú | olfactory bulb (anatomy) |
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “sniff”.
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.