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
推断
tuīduàn
to infer; to deduce
Characters in this word
断 duàn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 斤 — axe
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 研究人员根据化石分布推断，这种动物曾经广泛迁徙。 Yánjiū rényuán gēnjù huàshí fēnbù tuīduàn, zhè zhǒng dòngwù céngjīng guǎngfàn qiānxǐ. Researchers inferred from fossil distribution that this animal once migrated widely.
- 从脚印的深浅可以推断他的体重。 Cóng jiǎoyìn de shēn qiǎn kěyǐ tuīduàn tāde tǐzhòng. From the depth of the footprints, you can infer his weight.
- 医生根据检查结果推断病因。 Yīshēng gēnjù jiǎnchá jiéguǒ tuīduàn bìngyīn. The doctor inferred the cause of the illness from the test results.
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
- 推测 tuīcè to speculate, to guess
- 推崇 tuīchóng to esteem highly; to advocate
- 推辞 tuīcí to decline; to refuse politely
- 推翻 tuīfān to overthrow; to overturn; to refute