猜
to guess
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,424 U+731C
How 猜 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
犭 (semantic, “dog”) + 青 (phonetic, qīng)
How to remember it
guess · Heisig RSH #2567
pack of wild dogs + telescope
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 青
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 青 (qīng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 青 sound component | qīng | nature's color; blue, green, black; young |
| 情 | qíng | emotion, feeling, sentiment |
| 清 | qīng | clean, pure; clear, distinct; peaceful |
| 精 | jīng | essence, germ, spirit |
| 请 | qǐng | to ask, to request; to invite; please |
| 氰 | qíng | cyanogen; ethane dinitrile |
| 睛 | jīng | eyeball; pupil |
| 晴 | qíng | clear weather, fine weather |
| 蜻 | qīng | dragonfly |
| 靓 | liàng | ornament; pretty; to apply make-up |
| 菁 | jīng | turnip; a flower of the leek family |
| 腈 | jīng | acrylic |
| 箐 | qìng | to draw a bamboo bow |
| 鲭 | qīng | mackerel |
| 鼱 | jīng | shrew |
| 圊 | qīng | restroom |
Words containing 猜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 两小无猜 | liǎng xiǎo wú cāi | innocent playmates |
| 哥德巴赫猜想 | Gē dé bā hè cāi xiǎng | the Goldbach conjecture in number theory |
| 猜不透 | cāi bu tòu | to be unable to guess or make out |
| 猜得透 | cāi de tòu | to have sufficient insight to perceive; to suspect that ... |
| 猜中 | cāi zhòng | to guess correctly; to figure out the right answer |
| 无猜 | wú cāi | unsuspecting; innocent and without apprehension |
| 猜度 | cāi duó | to surmise; to conjecture |
| 猜着 | cāi zháo | to guess correctly |
| 猜想 | cāi xiǎng | to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) conjecture; hypothesis |
| 猜测 | cāi cè | to guess; to conjecture; to surmise |
| 猜谜儿 | cāi mí r | to answer a riddle; to guess (i.e. form an opinion without much evidence) |
| 猜拳 | cāi quán | finger-guessing game; rock-paper-scissors game; morra |
| 猜疑 | cāi yí | to suspect; to have misgivings; suspicious; misgivings |
| 盲猜 | máng cāi | to hazard a guess |
| 竞猜 | jìng cāi | to try to predict the outcome of an event (for betting on sports results or for fun etc) |
| 猜忌 | cāi jì | to be suspicious and jealous of |
| 嫌猜 | xián cāi | suspicion |
| 瞎猜 | xiā cāi | to make a wild guess; blind guess |
| 猜谜 | cāi mí | to answer a riddle; to guess (i.e. form an opinion without much evidence) |
| 猜枚 | cāi méi | drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's clo… |