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察

察 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 隅々まで理解している。
  2. 隅々まで調べ上げる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「宀」+音符「祭」。「しらべる」「あきらかにする」を意味する漢語｛察｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

guess, presume, surmise, judge, understand

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • サツElem.
Other languages
  • 拼音cha2
  • 한글chal
  • Hán-ViệtSát

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
寸(すん)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+5BDF

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱宀祭

Words using this kanji

  • 察知さっちあることを推し測って知ること。to sense, to infer, to gather, to pick up on
  • 察するさっする〔何かの事実を〕推察して理解する。 〔人の気持ちを〕推測して配慮する。推測して同情する。to guess, to sense, to presume, to judge
  • 察しさっし推察。推察力。 「察する」の未然形・連用形。consideration, guess, conjecture, judgement
  • 察さつcops, police
  • 察すさっすto guess, to sense, to presume, to judge
  • 察するにさっするにpresumably, it seems that ..., I guess that ..., I suppose that ...
  • 察しがつくさっしがつくto be able to guess, to be able to surmise, to be able to figure out
  • 察するに余りあるさっするにあまりあるto be more than one can imagine (esp. of sadness, anguish, etc.), to be impossible to comprehend

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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