to explore / to search out / to scout / to visit / to stretch forward
探
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扌
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冖
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八
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木
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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.
探
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扌
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罙
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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.
针
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十
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钅
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James II of England (zh) found a huge cross made from a bone and a flute (十) with a golden harpoon (钅) sticking in the bone in front of the encampment ((e)n1). He wants to find out where it came from, so he uses a needle (针) to draw bone marrow from the bone to analyze its DNA, and it turns out that it once belonged to a white whale.