The kanji 偵: meaning, readings and stroke order

偵

Meaning: spy, investigate
On reading: テイ tei
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 11
Radical: 人 man, human
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: dò thám, trinh sát (trinh)
Japanese: こっそりしらべる。
Korean: 정탐하다, 염탐하다 (정)
Chinese: 侦察、侦探 (侦)

Readings, words and example sentences

テイ tei · on reading · less common

探たん偵てい
detective
探たん偵ていの出てくる小説です。
This is a novel with a detective in it.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.