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The character 测 (traditional: 測) is a phono-semantic compound, with the water radical 氵 on the left indicating its semantic field and 則 (meaning rule or standard) on the right serving as the phonetic component. It originally meant to measure the depth of water, applying a standard to rivers or lakes. This sense gradually broadened from hydrology to include general physical measurement, land surveying, and the abstract processes of estimation, prediction, inference, and conjecture.
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我们明天有测试。
医生正在测量病人的体温。
科学家预测明天气温会下降。
这个设备用于检测空气质量。
通过观测数据，他们得出了结论。
根据现有证据，警方推测嫌疑人在本地。
这个测评报告详细分析了产品的优缺点。
地质队利用先进技术完成了这片区域的测绘工作。