揣摩

Chinese

		estimate; guess; figure estimate; guess; figure; surmise; put into	rub
trad. (揣摩)		揣	摩
simp. #(揣摩)		揣	摩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuǎimó

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄞˇ ㄇㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun² mo¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuǎimó → chuǎimo (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄞˇ ㄇㄛˊ → ㄔㄨㄞˇ ˙ㄇㄛ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuǎimo̊
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuai³-mo⁵
    • Yale: chwǎi-mwo
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: choai.mo
    • Palladius: чуаймо (čuajmo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯aɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ mu̯ɔ³⁵/ → /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯aɪ̯²¹⁴ mu̯ɔ⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun² mo¹
    • Yale: chyún mō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn² mo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun² mo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn³⁵ mɔː⁵⁵/

Verb

揣摩

1. to try to figure out; to rack one's brains

Synonyms

• 冥思 (míngsī)
• 冥想 (míngxiǎng)
• 品味 (pǐnwèi)
• 尋味／寻味 (xúnwèi)
• 尋思／寻思
• 念 (niàn)
• 思 (literary, or in compounds)
• 思想 (sīxiǎng)
• 思慮／思虑 (sīlǜ)
• 思索 (sīsuǒ)
• 思維／思维 (sīwéi)
• 思考 (sīkǎo)
• 思裁 (si¹ cai²) (Sichuanese)
• 思量 (sīliáng)
• 慎思 (shènsī)
• 掂掇 (diānduo) (colloquial)
• 推敲 (tuīqiāo)
• 掂量 (diānliáng)
• 斟酌 (zhēnzhuó) (figuratively)
• 沉思 (chénsī)
• 深思 (shēnsī)
• 照顧／照顾 (zhàogù)
• 玩味 (wánwèi)
• 玩弄 (Classical Chinese)
• 琢磨 (zuómo)
• 算計／算计 (suànjì)
• 考慮／考虑 (kǎolǜ)
• 苦思 (kǔsī)
• 著想／着想 (zhuóxiǎng)
• 計算／计算 (jìsuàn)
• 計較／计较
• 設想／设想 (shèxiǎng)
• 顧全／顾全 (gùquán)
• 顧及／顾及 (gùjí)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (揣摩):

• → Japanese: 揣摩(しま) (shima)