







tentative
exploratory
provisional
experimental
If you don't want to sound impolite, or cause embarrassment or distress of any kind to the person you're talking to, you should learn to use tactful and tentative forms in your English.
It may be a well-informed, well-researched opinion, but it's still an opinion, so talk tentatively and slightly understates your confidence.

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Open the tool →试探性 (shì tàn xìng) means “tentative, exploratory, provisional, experimental”.
试探性 is pronounced shì tàn xìng in Mandarin Chinese.
“tentative” is 试探性 (shì tàn xìng) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 试探性, each with pinyin and an English translation.