Chinese Character Wiki

忖

cǔn

guess

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 寸 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

寸 sound component

寸  Sound component

cùn

  

(hand), inch

Evolution

忖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
忖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

忖  

cǔn

guess, suppose, conjecture; to ponder; to speculate; to consider; to guess

Most common words with 忖
Freq.
Word
Meaning

忖

to ponder

思忖

to ponder

忖度

to speculate

自忖

to speculate

忖量

to guess

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]ˤu[n]ʔ

tshwonX

cǔn

measure, consider


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3000th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5FD6

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“忖，度也。从心，寸聲。”


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