猜 (caai1 | cai1) : guess; suspect; clue

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猜

caai1

cai1

[1] [v] guess; suspect; conjecture; suppose; doubt [2] cruel and suspicious [3] clue

Stroke count: 11

Level: 3

Radical: 犬 (#94)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

猜

This word has been viewed 8255 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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猜疑 caai1 ji4 cai1 yi2 = to suspect

猜忌 caai1 gei6 cai1 ji4 = jealous suspicion

瞎猜 hat6 caai1 = a wild guess

猜測 caai1 cak1 cai1 ce4 = to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

猜想 caai1 soeng2 cai1 xiang3 = to guess; to suppose; to suspect

猜枚 caai1 mui4*2 cai1 mei2 = a game of guessing numbers - a drinking game

手語猜字 sau2 jyu5 caai1 zi6 shou3 yu3 cai1 zi4 = charades

猜情尋 caai1 cing4 cam4 = the game of scissor rock paper 粵

猜呈尋 caai1 cing4 /ceng4 cam4 = the game of scissor, rock, paper; not serious, frivolous or silly

千猜 cin1 caai1 = anyhow, lax 粵
See all 11 compounds (CantoDict reports 10 compounds in total, which would seem to be an error - please report this on the CantoDict forum)

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 猜
Unicode code for this character: U+731C (off-site link)

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