Kanji
N3 11 strokes Grade 6 freq #930

grope, search, look for

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

hand te

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

exploration; expedition
probe; inquiry
detective; investigator
search; quest
research; investigation
search; lookup
detection
detector; locator
phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call
mineral exploration

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

to search for; to look for
fumbling; groping
to search for; to seek for
sounding; probing
to feel around for; to fumble for
to search about for; to hunt around for
looking for something; searching for something

Example sentences

He hopes to explore the uninhabited island.

He likes to go on explorations to Africa.

He reads detective stories on occasion.

The detective took six months to get at the truth of that affair.