to explore / to search out / to scout / to visit / to stretch forward

= + + + : Tecumseh (t) lost an eight-ball (八) during the last billiard game and goes scouting (探) to find it. Eventually he arrives at the anthill's bathroom (an4) and looks under a big Christmas tree (木). He lifts a cooking top (冖) with a toy claw (扌) and finally finds the eight-ball under it.

= + : Tecumseh (t) is exploring (探) the chimney of a kitchen range (罙) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He uses two toy claws (扌) to climb inside of it from bottom to top.

探 character breakdown

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
surname Mu
tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).
far / alternative form of 深: chimney of kitchen range

= + : This character looks like a ceiling (top part of ⺳) with a fume hood or the chimney itself below the ceiling (bottom part of ⺳), and below that you have the firewood burning. Sherlock Holmes (sh) arrives at the encampment ((e)n1) to find the pieces of a Christmas tree (木), which is an important piece of evidence in a murder case he has been working on, burning on a fire below the chimney of a kitchen range (罙). Using a butterfly net (⺳) he collects the hot ashes floating out of the chimney to preserve the evidence.
eight; 8

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

Characters with 探 as component

探 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 探

detective / to do detective work
to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting
detective (in former times)
to sniff (in order to find sth)
inside informer / mole / plant
to check out / to investigate
to conduct an exploratory foray into (an area of study, a market etc) / a preliminary study

Sentences with 探

探 currently does not appear in any sentence.