猜cāi
to guess. 11 strokes, radical 犭, first met in HSK 5.
How to write 猜
Strokes 1–3 write 犭, then strokes 4–11 write 青.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 猜 · the stroke-order rules
What 猜 is made of
犭 (quǎn, dog) and 青 (qīng, nature's color).
犭 carries the meaning — dog — and 青 carries the sound.
Words that use 猜
| 猜 | to guess 凭感觉或推测说出答案，没有确凿依据 谜底揭晓前，孩子们纷纷举手猜。Before the answer was revealed, the kids raised their hands to guess. Lesson 395, 慎思明辨 · 审时度势与明辨是非 · Discernment & Empirical Truth |
| 猜测 | to speculate, conjecture 根据不完整的线索去推断可能的情况 媒体纷纷猜测事故发生的原因。The media began to speculate about the cause of the accident. Lesson 395, 慎思明辨 · 审时度势与明辨是非 · Discernment & Empirical Truth |
Characters that share the sound part 青
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 犭
All 13 of them, and what the radical means, on the 犭 radical page.