察する

さっする · sassuru · JLPT N1 · verb-suru

to sense

🔍 sounds like sass-you: sensing what someone means before they spell it out

察 pairs 宀 (roof, shelter) with 祭. The core idea is examining closely beneath the surface, as in 察知 (sensing something unspoken) and 推察 (inferring).

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