察

察 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十月人火 (JBOF), four-corner 3090₁, composition ⿱宀祭)

• 嚓 擦 檫 䃰 聺 鑔(镲) 䕓 𢣼 𪹾 𥌀 𧞍 𥽕 𫟗 𧭂 𨆾 𩟔 𩉐 𩴳 𬿺 𬯠 𬰓 𬩲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 290, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7283
• Dae Jaweon: page 574, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 948, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5BDF

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰreːd): semantic 宀 (“roof”) + phonetic 祭 (OC *ʔsreːds, *ʔsleds).

From 差 (OC *sʰraːls, “distinction”) or 差 (OC *sʰraːl, “to choose”) — to sort out differences (Schussler (2007)).

察

1. to examine; to investigate; to notice
2. short for 察哈爾／察哈尔 (Cháhā'ěr)

   晉察冀邊區／晋察冀边区  ―  Jìn Chá Jì Biānqū  ―  Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region

• “察”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “察”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 210.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. clear; to clarify; to investigate in detail (しる, みる, あきらか)
2. to guess^[1]

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: さつ (satsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: しる (shiru, 察る)、みる (miru, 察る)、あきらか (akiraka, 察らか)

The "to guess" sense is specific to Japanese and is generally used in 察(さっ)する (sassuru, “to guess”). This character means "investigate" when used in compounds.

Clipping of 警察(けいさつ) (keisatsu, “police”).

• (Tokyo) さつ [sáꜜtsù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [sa̠t͡sɨ]

察(さつ) or 察(サツ) • (satsu) 

1. (slang) cops; police

• This term is often spelled in katakana, as サツ (satsu).

• 察(さつ)回(まわ)り (satsumawari)

察 • (chal) (hangeul 찰, revised chal, McCune–Reischauer ch'al)

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察: Hán Nôm readings: sát, xét

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