推测

推測

tuīcè

verb HSK 7 #4,596

Meanings

1 to speculate
2 to conjecture
3 to infer

Characters

to push; to deduce

to measure; to assess

Examples

警方推测嫌疑人已经逃离了这座城市。

Jǐngfāng tuīcè xiányírén yǐjīng táolí le zhè zuò chéngshì.

The police speculate that the suspect has fled the city.

我们只能推测事情的经过。

Wǒmen zhǐ néng tuīcè shìqíng de jīngguò.

We can only speculate about what happened.

Tips

usage

推测 implies reasoning with incomplete evidence. Compare: 推断 (to deduce, with more logical basis) and 猜测 (to guess, with less basis).

Stroke Order

推 tuī

测 cè