Onyomi: サツ · Kunyomi: - · Meanings: guess, judge, presume, surmise, understand
Kanji for guess, judge, presume, surmise, understand
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察 is made from 宀, meaning “roof” or “building,” and 祭, which is connected to careful preparation and ritual. Inside a building, important rituals required close attention to details. This sense of carefully watching, examining, and understanding something developed from that image. From this idea, 察 came to mean to observe, inspect, or notice closely.
察 shows careful attention given inside a building, meaning to observe closely.
Imagine standing inside a quiet building, carefully watching every detail of a ritual. That focused observation is 察.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 察 | さつ | cops, police | Noun |
| 察する | さっする | to guess, to sense, to presume, to judge | common JLPT-N1 Suru verb - special class, Transitive verb |
| 察知 | さっち | to sense, to infer, to gather, to pick up on, to get wind of, to perceive | common Suru verb, Transitive verb, Noun |
| 察し | さっし | consideration, guess, conjecture, judgement | Noun |
| 察するに | さっするに | presumably, it seems that ..., I guess that ..., I suppose that ..., one could infer that ... | Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Adverb (fukushi) |
| 察す | さっす | to guess, to sense, to presume, to judge | Godan verb with 'su' ending, Transitive verb |
| 察するに余りある | さっするにあまりある | to be more than one can imagine (esp. of sadness, anguish, etc.), to be impossible to comprehend | Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ru' ending (irregular verb) |
| 察布査爾報 | Qapqal News | Wikipedia definition | |
| 察度 | Satto | Wikipedia definition | |
| 察哈爾省 | Chahar Province | Wikipedia definition |