to survey; to measure; to conjecture

verb HSK 3.0 · Band 5 trad. 測

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

测一下体温。

Take the temperature.

这个怎么测?

How do we measure this?