Chinese word dictionary

嫌猜

xián cāi · suspicion

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Simplified嫌猜

Traditional嫌猜

Pinyinxián cāi

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Character breakdown

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嫌xián

to hate, to detest; to criticize; to suspect

猜cāi

to guess, to conjecture, to suppose; to feel

How to learn 嫌猜

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Words with the same characters

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猜cāi

to guess

猜测cāicè

to guess; to conjecture; to surmise

嫌xián

to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xian2 fan4], criminal suspect

猜想cāixiǎng

to guess; to conjecture; to suppose; (math.) hypothesis

涉嫌shèxián

to be a suspect (in a crime); to be suspected of

嫌弃xiánqì

to regard with disdain; to shun