察する|さっするsassuru[0]heiban (flat)

1. suru verb (irregular), transitive verbto guess; to sense; to presume; to judge
   この手紙てがみから察さっすると彼かれは立腹りっぷくしているようだ。↗

   I gathered from this letter that he was angry.
2. suru verb (irregular), transitive verbto sympathize with; to sympathise with

• Synonym感じ取るかんじとるNeutralPicks up on moods and atmospheres through feeling; 「察する」 arrives at understanding by inference and often carries consideration for the other person.
• Synonym察知さっちWrittenWritten register: to infer and come to know, as in 「危険を察知する」 or 「異変を察知する」; 「察する」 often carries consideration for the other's feelings.
• Synonym感知かんちWrittenWritten register: perceiving external changes through the senses or with instruments; 「察する」 is inference done with the mind.
• Synonym推察すいさつWrittenWritten register: to conjecture or surmise, as in 「ご推察のとおり」; 「察する」 is more often used to show consideration for others' feelings.
• Synonym悟るさとるNeutralTo grasp the true meaning or a principle, or attain enlightenment; 「察する」 is inference with consideration for others.
• Synonym見て取るみてとるNeutralGrasps a situation through direct observation; 「察する」 is not limited to what can be seen and works by inference.
• RelatedわかるNeutralThe most common word for understanding or something becoming clear; 「察する」 reaches understanding by inference, with consideration implied.
• Related捉えるとらえるNeutralGrasps meanings or features, as in 「本質を捉える」; 「察する」 is about inferring and taking others' feelings into account.
• Related気づくきづくNeutralTo notice or become aware of something; 「察する」 is working out what is meant without it being said.
• Related知るしるNeutralThe most basic word for knowing; 「察する」 is working something out by inference when you have not been told.
• Related認識にんしきNeutralTo recognize or correctly grasp something; 「察する」 is inference combined with consideration for others.
• Related感じるかんじるNeutralTo feel or sense, with a very wide range of uses; 「察する」 is inferring another person's feelings or situation.
• Related認知にんちWrittenWritten register: to recognize or acknowledge that something exists; 「察する」 carries no sense of acknowledgement.
• Related推測すいそくNeutralTo infer from clues in an objective, rational way; 「察する」 also carries consideration and sympathy for the person.
• Related知覚ちかくWrittenWritten register and a psychology term for perceiving through the senses; 「察する」 is inference done in the mind.
• Related感ずるかんずるWrittenThe written-style form of 「感じる」; 「察する」 is about inferring and taking others' feelings into account.
• Related推し量るおしはかるWrittenTo infer from what is already known, as in 「心中を推し量る」; close in meaning to 「察する」 but more written in style.
• Related気がつくきがつくNeutralTo notice something, and also to be attentive and thoughtful; 「察する」 is reading feelings the other person has left unsaid.
• Related感受かんじゅWrittenWritten register: to receive and feel stimuli; 「察する」 is about understanding another person's feelings.
• Related感づくかんづくCasualColloquial: to get a vague inkling of something, bad or good; 「察する」 mostly carries consideration for someone's feelings.
• Related看取かんしゅWrittenWritten and rare: to see through or perceive something; in everyday speech 「見て取る」 is used instead.

Use 「察する」 to infer and show consideration for someone's feelings or a situation, as in 「お察しします」 and 「事情を察する」. For objective, rational inference choose 「推測」 or 「推察」; for sensing danger or unusual developments choose 「察知」; for simply noticing something, 「気づく」 is the everyday word.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 〔何なんかの事実じじつを〕推察すいさつして理解りかいする。
2. 〔人ひとの気持きもちを〕推測すいそくして配慮はいりょする。推測すいそくして同情どうじょうする。