忖度

cǔnduó

verb #66,561

Meanings

HSK 3

他心里忖度着该怎么回答。

Tā xīnli cǔnduó zhe gāi zěnme huídá.

He turned over in his mind how he should answer.

HSK 5

我忖度他不会同意这个方案，就没去找他。

Wǒ cǔnduó tā bú huì tóngyì zhège fāng'àn, jiù méi qù zhǎo tā.

I reckoned he wouldn't agree to the plan, so I didn't go to see him.

mistakes

度 is duó here, 'to estimate', not dù as in 温度. The same duó appears in 揣度 and 审时度势.

Literary. In speech 琢磨 or 寻思 says the same thing.

忖 cǔn

度 dù