Chinese symbol for “snoop”

窥探

kuī tàn

Traditional: 窺探

to pry into or spy on; to snoop; to peep; to poke one's nose into

The closest CC-CEDICT match for snoop is 窥探 (kuī tàn), defined as: to pry into or spy on; to snoop; to peep; to poke one's nose into; to peer; to get a glimpse of.

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Characters and stroke order

窥 kuī

to peep, to spy on, to watch

radical 116 ⽳ · 13 strokes

探 tàn

to find, to locate; to grope for, to search for

radical 64 ⼿ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

窺 kuī

Related words

Other words that share a character with 窥探.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
偷窥 (偷窺)	tōu kuī	to peep; to peek
窥视 (窺視)	kuī shì	to peep at; to spy on
窥见 (窺見)	kuī jiàn	to catch a glimpse of
内窥镜 (內窺鏡)	nèi kuī jìng	endoscope
管窥 (管窺)	guǎn kuī	to look at sth through a bamboo tube; to have a restricted view
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 “snoop”.

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.