测
Meaning
- to survey
- to measure
- to conjecture
Example sentence
他预测会下雨。
He predicted there would be rain.
The character 测
测 is 氵, water, beside 则: sounding a depth. To measure — 测量 to survey, 测试 what a machine is put through, 检测 to inspect — and 预测 measures what has not happened yet.