测

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to survey; to measure; to conjecture

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 meaning “water” + 则 sound ( zé )

Components 氵则

fathom · Heisig RSH #157

水 water + 则 rule

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
大地测量学	dà dì cè liáng xué	geodesy
生物测定	shēng wù cè dìng	bioassay
时间测定学	shí jiān cè dìng xué	chronometry
三角测量法	sān jiǎo cè liáng fǎ	triangulation (surveying)
视力测定法	shì lì cè dìng fǎ	optometry; eyesight testing
大学学科能力测验	Dà xué Xué kē Néng lì Cè yàn	General Scholastic Ability Test (college entrance exam in Taiwan)
人心难测	rén xīn nán cè	hard to fathom a person's mind (idiom)
普通话水平测试	Pǔ tōng huà Shuǐ píng Cè shì	Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for nat…
测地线	cè dì xiàn	geodesic; a geodesic (curve)
华语文能力测验	Huá yǔ wén Néng lì Cè yàn	TOCFL (Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language)
深不可测	shēn bù kě cè	deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths; incomprehensible; enigmatic and imposs…
测地线曲率	cè dì xiàn qū lǜ	geodesic curvature
全球位置测定系统	quán qiú wèi zhì cè dìng xì tǒng	GPS (Global Positioning System)
不测	bù cè	unexpected; measureless; unexpected circumstance; contingency; mishap
测心术	cè xīn shù	mind reading
学测	Xué cè	abbr. for 大學學科能力測驗\|大学学科能力测验[Da4 xue2 Xue2 ke1 Neng2 li4 Ce4 yan4]
测天	cè tiān	to make astronomical observation
感测器	gǎn cè qì	(Tw) sensor
体测	tǐ cè	fitness test; to do a fitness test
公测	gōng cè	(software development) to do beta testing

Characters sharing the sound component 则 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
则 sound part	zé	rule, law, regulation; grades
侧	cè	side; to slant, to lean, to incline
厕	cè	toilet, washroom; to mingle
恻	cè	anguished; sympathetic
鲗	zéi	cuttlefish