Chinese Character Wiki
測

cè

measure

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 則 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

則 sound component

則  Sound component

zé

  

rule

Evolution

測 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
測 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
測 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
測 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

测 (測) 

cè

measure, estimate, conjecture; to survey; to measure; to conjecture

Most common words with 測
Freq.
Word
Meaning

测试

test

检测

to detect

测

to survey

预测

to forecast

监测

to monitor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[tsʰ]rək

tsrhik

cè

fathom (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 41.9990% of movies

842nd most common character in movies

861st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

测

Unicode

U+6E2C

Shuowen

“測，深所至也。从水，則聲。”


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