猜 cāi
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 犭 — dog
- Made of
- 犭 dog 青 blue, green
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
猜想
cāixiǎng
to guess; conjecture; conjecture
Characters in this word
Example phrases
- 关于月亮的形成，科学家提出过好几种猜想。 Guānyú yuèliang de xíngchéng, kēxuéjiā tíchū guo hǎo jǐ zhǒng cāixiǎng. Scientists have put forward several conjectures about how the moon formed.
- 我猜想他今天可能不会来了。 Wǒ cāixiǎng tā jīntiān kěnéng bú huì lái le. I guess he probably will not come today.
- 看到地上的水，她猜想楼上的水管坏了。 Kàndào dì shang de shuǐ, tā cāixiǎng lóu shang de shuǐguǎn huài le. Seeing the water on the floor, she guessed that the pipe upstairs was broken.
Related words
- 猜 cāi to guess
- 猜测 cāicè to guess; to suppose
- 想 xiǎng to want; to think; to miss
- 理想 lǐxiǎng dream; ideal
- 想到 xiǎngdào to think of; to remember
- 想法 xiǎngfǎ idea
- 想起 xiǎngqǐ to remember; to recall
- 思想 sīxiǎng thought; way of thinking
- 没想到 méixiǎngdào to not expect
- 梦想 mèngxiǎng dream; wish
- 想念 xiǎngniàn to miss someone
- 想象 xiǎngxiàng to imagine