chuāi, chuǎi
put things under clothes
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 耑 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 揣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
Taiwan pr. [chuǎi] | ||
to guess | ||
to analyze | ||
to estimate | ||
to conjecture |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tʰ<r>orʔ | tsrhjweX | chuǎi | to measure; to estimate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5698% of movies
3217th most common character in movies
3034th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+63E3 |
Shuowen | “揣，量也。从手，耑聲。度高曰揣。一曰捶之。” |
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