Chinese symbol for “guess”
猜
cāi
to guess
The closest CC-CEDICT match for guess is 猜 (cāi), defined as: to guess.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “guess”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猜测 (猜測) | cāi cè | to guess; to conjecture |
| 猜想 | cāi xiǎng | to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) conjecture; hypothesis |
| 揣测 (揣測) | chuǎi cè | to guess; to conjecture |
| 约莫 (約莫) | yuē mo | to estimate; to guess; about; around; approximately |
| 料 | liào | material; stuff |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 猜.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猜测 (猜測) | cāi cè | to guess; to conjecture |
| 猜想 | cāi xiǎng | to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) conjecture; hypothesis |
| 猜疑 | cāi yí | to suspect; to have misgivings |
| 猜忌 | cāi jì | to be suspicious and jealous of |
| 竞猜 (競猜) | jìng cāi | to try to predict the outcome of an event (for betting on sports results or for fun etc) |
| 猜中 | cāi zhòng | to guess correctly; to figure out the right answer |
See also: Japanese symbol for “guess”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.