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
推算
tuīsuàn
to calculate; to infer from data
Characters in this word
算 suàn
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 具 tool, implement
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 专家通过人口结构推算，二十年后养老压力将显著上升。 Zhuānjiā tōngguò rénkǒu jiégòu tuīsuàn, èrshí nián hòu yǎnglǎo yālì jiāng xiǎnzhù shàngshēng. Experts calculated from the population structure that pressure on elderly care will rise sharply in twenty years.
- 按目前的进度推算，这项工程明年年底就能完工。 Àn mùqián de jìndù tuīsuàn, zhè xiàng gōngchéng míngnián niándǐ jiù néng wángōng. Judging by the current pace of work, this project can be finished by the end of next year.
- 天文学家推算出，这颗彗星大约每隔七十年出现一次。 Tiānwénxuéjiā tuīsuàn chū, zhè kē huìxīng dàyuē měi gé qīshí nián chūxiàn yí cì. Astronomers calculated that this comet appears roughly every seventy years.
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
- 推断 tuīduàn to infer; to deduce