cāi

to guess

dog (犭) + sound cāi (青) = to guess

Dogs are alert and investigative, sniffing out what is hidden — the animal radical grounds the idea of probing or sensing something unknown. 青 contributes the sound cāi and carries no direct meaning here.

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Dog (variant of 犬)Semantic
Blue-greenPhonetic

这个盒子里面有什么?

nǐ cāi zhè ge hé zi lǐ miàn yǒu shén me?

Can you guess what is inside this box?

他今天不会来了,因为天气太差。

wǒ cāi tā jīn tiān bú huì lái le,yīn wèi tiān qì tài chà。

I guess he won't come today, because the weather is too bad.

Words with 猜

哥德巴赫猜想

gē dé bā hè cāi xiǎng

the Goldbach conjecture in number theory

两小无猜

liǎng xiǎo wú cāi

innocent playmates

嫌猜

xián cāi

suspicion

无猜

wú cāi

unsuspecting

猜不透

cāi bu tòu

to be unable to guess or make out

猜中

cāi zhòng

to guess correctly

猜度

cāi duó

to surmise

猜得透

cāi de tòu

to have sufficient insight to perceive

猜忌

cāi jì

to be suspicious and jealous of

猜想

cāi xiǎng

to guess; to conjecture; to suppose

猜拳

cāi quán

finger-guessing game

猜枚

cāi méi

drinking game where one has to guess the number of small objects in the other player's closed hand

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