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探望

tàn wàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

探望 (tàn wàng) means "to visit; to call on sb; to look around". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 探望 means

1. to visit
2. to call on sb
3. to look around

The characters in 探望

• 探tànto explore; to search out; to scout
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect

Example sentences

• 她探望了她在监狱里的丈夫。
  Tā tànwàng le tā zài jiānyù lǐ de zhàngfu.
  She visited her husband in prison.
• 我的叔叔们有时会来探望我。
  Wǒ de shūshu men yǒushí huì lái tànwàng wǒ.
  My uncles come to see me from time to time.
• 我已经很久没有探望过祖母了。
  Wǒ yǐjīng hěn jiǔ méiyǒu tànwàng guo zǔmǔ le.
  It's been a long time since I visited my grandmother.
• 海伦每个星期天探望她的叔叔。
  Hǎilún měi gè Xīngqītiān tànwàng tā de shūshu.
  Helen visits her uncle every Sunday.
• 对于是否要去医院探望Mary,Tom有点犹豫不决。
  Duìyú shìfǒu yào qù yīyuàn tànwàng Mary, T om yǒudiǎn yóuyùbùjué.
  Tom hesitates that wheather he should go to the hospital to vistit Mary.

Where 探望 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tài–tāo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tàn wàng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.