HSK 4 · Verbs

猜 cāi “to guess” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 猜 means

  1. to guess

How to say 猜

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale猜cāi1st tone, high and level

猜 in a sentence

  1. 你能猜到我的年龄吗？

    Nǐ néng cāi dào wǒ de niánlíng ma?

    Can you guess my age?

    Sentence #333677 from Tatoeba

  2. 你差不多猜对了。

    Nǐ chàbuduō cāi duì le.

    Your guess is almost right.

    Sentence #476678 from Tatoeba

  3. 我猜明天会是好天气。

    Wǒ cāi míngtiān huì shì hǎo tiānqì.

    My guess is that it will be fine tomorrow.

    Sentence #844554 from Tatoeba

How 猜 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 猜 (cāi) with each of its parts in a different colour
猜cāito guess
  • 犭dog form of 犬 · quǎnMeaning part
  • 青blue-green · qīngSound part

犭 hints at the meaning (dog); 青 (qīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with cāi.

How to write 猜

猜 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

猜 (cāi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 猜 (cāi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 猜

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保证bǎozhèng · guarantee抱歉bàoqiàn · to be sorry表示biǎoshì · to express表扬biǎoyáng · to praise成功chénggōng · success道歉dàoqiàn · to apologise打招呼dǎzhāohu · to say hello对话duìhuà · dialogue

FAQs

猜 (cāi) means “to guess”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it cāi: cāi with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 猜 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 猜 from the suggestions. Typing cai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
猜 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.