kān
investigate
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 甚 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 勘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to reconnoiter | ||
to survey | ||
to explore | ||
to reconnoiter | ||
to survey |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.4897% of movies
3094th most common character in movies
2585th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+52D8 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“勘，校也。从力，甚聲。” |
Sources
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