kān
Pinyin

Definition

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kān
  1. to investigate
  2. to survey
  3. to collate

Character Decomposition

Compounds (1)

kàn
  1. 1 dangerous sea-cliff

Related Words (8)

kān tàn
  1. 1 to explore
  2. 2 to survey
  3. 3 to prospect (for oil etc)
  4. 4 prospecting
kān chá
  1. 1 to reconnoiter
  2. 2 to explore
  3. 3 to survey
kān chá
  1. 1 variant: 勘察 kān chá
kān cè
  1. 1 to investigate
  2. 2 to survey
kān pò
  1. 1 see also: 看破 kàn pò

Sample Sentences

周一,爸爸到学校替我请假。他回家后,告诉了我他在学校看到的事情。有很多警察和警车,因为有校工在清理湖面的时候,发现了一具女尸。经勘查,这个女孩已经死亡一个月,身份无法确认。因为尸体,特别是脸部,已经高度腐烂......
zhōuyī ,bàba dào xuéxiào tì wǒ qǐngjià 。tā huíjiā hòu ,gàosu le wǒ tā zài xuéxiào kàndào de shìqing 。yǒu hěnduō jǐngchá hé jǐngchē ,yīnwèi yǒu xiào zài qīnglǐ húmiàn de shíhou ,fāxiàn le yī jù nǚshī 。jīng kānchá ,zhè ge nǚhái yǐjīng sǐwáng yī ge yuè ,shēnfèn wúfǎ quèrèn 。yīnwèi shītǐ ,tèbié shì liǎnbù ,yǐjīng gāodù fǔlàn ......
On Monday, my dad came and got me out of school. After we got home he told me what had happened at the school. There were so many police and police cars because a school janitor had found a girl's corpse while cleaning up the lake's surface. The investigation determined that she had already been dead for a month and that there was no way to confirm her identity. Why? Because the corpse, especially the face, had already greatly decomposed...