侦查

偵查
zhēnchá
  1. to detect
  2. to investigate

CEDICT

to investigate a crime

Wiktionary

检察官为发掘犯罪事实的真相，对犯罪嫌疑人及证据，作不公开的考查、蒐集，以便决定是否提起公诉的程序。

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Entry Composition

=1 侦 zhēn
  1. to scout
  2. to spy
  3. to detect
=1 侦 zhēn old variant of 侦 zhēn
2 查 chá
  1. to research
  2. to check
  3. to investigate
  4. to examine
  5. to refer to
  6. to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

Containing this entry

立案侦查 lìànzhēnchá
  1. to file for investigation
  2. to prosecute (a case)

Related entries

侦测 zhēncè
  1. to detect
  2. to sense
相反，他们通过舌头来侦测声音，并通过头骨内的感觉器官来感受震动。

Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.

Source: Tatoeba

检出 jiǎnchū to detect
检波 jiǎnbō to detect (e.g. radio waves)
检测 jiǎncè
  1. to detect
  2. to test
  3. detection
  4. sensing
DNA检测表明，他是无辜的。

A DNA test showed he was innocent.

Source: Tatoeba

测知 cèzhī
  1. to detect
  2. to sense
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