忖度

Chinese

ponder; consider; guess capacity; degree; standard
simp. and trad.
(忖度)

Pronunciation


Verb

忖度

  1. (literary) to speculate; to presume; to guess; to surmise

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
そん
Hyōgai
たく
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(そん)(たく) • (sontaku

  1. surmise, guess, conjecture
    Synonyms: 推察, 推量, 推測

Verb

(そん)(たく)する • (sontaku surusuru (stem (そん)(たく) (sontaku shi), past (そん)(たく)した (sontaku shita))

  1. to surmise (about somebody's feelings); to guess

Conjugation

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Further reading

sontaku on Wikipedia.Wikipedia