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估计

gū jì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 估計

估计 (gū jì) means "to estimate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 估计 means

1. to estimate; to assess; to calculate
2. colloquialto reckon; to think (that ...)

The characters in 估计

• 估gūto estimate
• 计jìto calculate; to compute; to count

Example sentences

• 你估计听众有多少?
  Nǐ gūjì tīngzhòng yǒu duōshao?
  How large is the audience?
• 损失是无法估计的。
  The losses are incalculable.
• 估计他有些不开心。
  I guess he is a bit unhappy.
• 估计那就是个笑话吧。
  Gūjì nà jiùshì gè xiàohuà ba.
  I guess it's only a joke.
• 您能估计一下数量吗？
  Nín néng gūjì yīxià shùliàng ma?
  Could you give me a ball-park figure?
• 我估计我无法及时赶到。
  I don't think that I'll be able to get there on time.

Words containing 估计

• 据估计jù gū jìaccording to estimates
• 约略估计yuē lüè gū jìapproximate estimate; to reckon roughly
• 最大似然估计zuì dà sì rán gū jìmaximum-likelihood estimation (statistics)

Sounds the same

Read gū jì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 孤寂lonesome; desolate

Where 估计 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Cognition & mental processes (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gū jì correctly.
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