| 调查 | diào chá | investigation / inquiry / to investigate / to survey / survey / (opinion) poll / CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4] | ![]() |
| 观察 | guān chá | to observe / to watch / to survey | ![]() |
| 探测 | tàn cè | to probe / to survey | ![]() |
| 勘探 | kān tàn | to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting | ![]() |
| 看看 | kàn kan | to take a look at / to examine / to survey / (coll.) pretty soon | ![]() |
| 观望 | guān wàng | to wait and see / to watch from the sidelines / to look around / to survey | ![]() |
| 勘察 | kān chá | to reconnoiter / to explore / to survey | ![]() |
| 观测 | guān cè | to observe / to survey / observation (scientific etc) | ![]() |
| 放眼 | fàng yǎn | to survey / to view broadly | ![]() |
| 环顾 | huán gù | to look around / to survey | ![]() |
| 勘测 | kān cè | to investigate / to survey | ![]() |
| 探勘 | tàn kān | to explore / to survey / to prospect (for oil etc) / prospecting | ![]() |
| 概观 | gài guān | to survey / to take stock of / overview | ![]() |
| 测 | cè | to survey / to measure / to conjecture | ![]() |
| 勘 | kān | to investigate / to survey / to collate | ![]() |
