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推测

tuī cè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 推測

推测 (tuī cè) means "to speculate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 推测 means

1. speculation
2. to conjecture
3. to surmise
4. to speculate

The characters in 推测

• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 测cèto survey; to measure; to conjecture

Example sentences

• 无根据的推测。
  Wú gēnjù de tuīcè.
  Baseless speculations.
• 我在推测他可能赢得比赛。
  Wǒ zài tuīcè tā kěnéng yíngdé bǐsài.
  I am speculating that he may win the game.

Where 推测 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuán–tuō (HSK 6), 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 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tuī cè correctly.
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