推 tuī
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 隹 short-tailed bird
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
推测
tuīcè
to speculate, to guess
Characters in this word
测 cè
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 则 rule, law, regulation
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 目前证据不足，警方只能根据现场情况进行推测。 Mùqián zhèngjù bùzú, jǐngfāng zhǐ néng gēnjù xiànchǎng qíngkuàng jìnxíng tuīcè. At present there is not enough evidence, so the police can only speculate based on the situation at the scene.
- 看他这么高兴，我推测他考得不错。 Kàn tā zhème gāoxìng, wǒ tuīcè tā kǎo de búcuò. Seeing how happy he is, I guess he did well in the exam.
- 科学家根据化石推测，这种动物生活在水边。 Kēxuéjiā gēnjù huàshí tuīcè, zhè zhǒng dòngwù shēnghuó zài shuǐbiān. Scientists infer from fossils that this animal lived by the water.
Related words
- 推 tuī to push
- 推动 tuīdòng to push forward; to promote
- 推广 tuīguǎng to promote; to spread
- 推进 tuījìn to advance; to push forward
- 推开 tuīkāi to push open; to push away
- 推迟 tuīchí to postpone
- 推销 tuīxiāo to promote and sell
- 推行 tuīxíng to carry out; to put into practice
- 推崇 tuīchóng to esteem highly; to advocate
- 推辞 tuīcí to decline; to refuse politely
- 推断 tuīduàn to infer; to deduce
- 推翻 tuīfān to overthrow; to overturn; to refute