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探讨

tàn tǎo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 探討

探讨 (tàn tǎo) means "to investigate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 探讨 means

1. to investigate
2. to probe

The characters in 探讨

• 探tànto explore; to search out; to scout
• 讨tǎoto invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for

Example sentences

• 这是值得探讨的话题。
  Zhè shì zhíde tàntǎo de huàtí.
  The topic is worth discussing.
• 学生们在探讨语言和文化。
  Xuésheng men zài tàntǎo yǔyán hé wénhuà.
  The students are talking about language and culture.
• 他在一家科学机构工作，在那里有语言学家，文学学者，历史学家，社会学家，经济学家和其他学者探讨一切有关侏儒的事。
  Tā zài yījiā kēxué jīgòu gōngzuò, zài nàli yǒu yǔyánxuéjiā, wénxué xuézhě, lìshǐxuéjiā, shèhuìxué jiā, jīngjìxuéjiā hé qítā xuézhě tàntǎo yīqiè yǒuguān zhūrú de shì.
  He works at a scientific institute where linguists, literature scholars, historians, sociologists, economists, and other scholars investigate everything that has to do with gnomes.

Where 探讨 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 tǎo correctly.
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