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察 — guess, presume, surmise

さつ察 guess

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes law

U+5BDF Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #477 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1184 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

guess
presume
surmise
judge
understand

word

さつ satsu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

察(さつ) satsu inspection 観(かん) 察(さつ) kansatsu observation 考(こう) 察(さつ) kousatsu consideration 検(けん) 察(さつ) kensatsu prosecution 検(けん) 察(さつ) 官(かん) kensatsukan public prosecutor 査(さ) 察(さつ) sasatsu inspection 警(けい) 察(さつ) keisatsu police 警(けい) 察(さつ) 官(かん) keisatsukan police officer

さっ sa Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

察(さっ) 知(ち) sacchi sensing

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

宀 roof

まつり祭 ritual

Used as component in (1)

する擦 grate

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.