探子

tànzi
  1. intelligence gatherer
  2. spy
  3. detective
  4. scout
  5. sound (medical instrument)
  6. long and narrow probing and sampling utensil

CEDICT

  1. (obsolete) scout; runner; someone (in the military) who is sent out to find information
  2. a kind of thin tube used to extract samples of food grains, etc.
  3. scout; runner; someone (in the military) who is sent out to find information

Wiktionary

  1. 軍隊中的偵探人員。
  2. 專門替人探聽消息的人。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 探 tàn
  1. to explore
  2. to search out
  3. to scout
  4. to visit
  5. to stretch forward
2 子 zi noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair"

Related entries

線人 xiànrén
  1. spy
  2. informer
間諜 jiàndié spy
偵察兵 zhēnchábīng
  1. a scout
  2. spy
內鬼 nèiguǐ
  1. mole
  2. spy
  3. rat
  4. traitor
暗樁 ànzhuāng
  1. submerged piles installed to prevent the passage of boats
  2. (fig.) informer
  3. spy
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