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漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home

察: guess, presume

Also: surmise, judge, understand

JLPT N314 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

宀 carries the meaning · 祭 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Bronze · Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

サツsatsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 警察けいさつpolice
  • 検察けんさつprosecutor
  • 洞察力どうさつりょくinsight, discernment
  • 察知するさっちするsense, infer
  • 視察するしさつするinspect, observe
  • 査察するささつするinspect, investigate
  • 診察するしんさつするperform a medical exam
  • 観察するかんさつするobserve, survey
  • 推察するすいさつするguess, conjecture, surmise
  • 考察するこうさつするconsider, inquire
  • 察するさっするguess, sense, presume

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)宀 roof (meaning) + 祭 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 察 (rev. 93447939), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Under one roof! Imagine the safety and warmth of a sturdy house at the end of a long day.”
More in the 宀 roof story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
宀

Also built on roof (宀)

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祭

Also built on ritual (祭)

The 祭 family reads サイ (sai); 察 is read サツ.

察 gives its sound to

The family reading is サツ (satsu). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read サツ

9 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
察 guess · 宀
vs際 occasion · ⻖
察 has 宀 where 際 has ⻖.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · chá

Same form: 察 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
察 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
察 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chá most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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