试
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 言 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 試
- Common rank
- #607
- Unicode
- U+8BD5
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
test · Heisig RSH #360
式 style + 言 say
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 试
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 考试 | to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4] | |
| 试手儿 | erhua variant of 試手|试手[shi4 shou3] | |
| 大学入学指定科目考试 | Advanced Subjects Test, university entrance exam that assesses candidates’ higher level kn… | |
| 试金石 | touchstone; fig. test that sth is genuine | |
| 以身试法 | to challenge the law (idiom); to knowingly violate the law | |
| 试用本 | inspection copy (of a textbook etc); trial edition | |
| 普通话水平测试 | Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for nat… | |
| 汉语水平考试 | HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) | |
| 普通高等学校招生全国统一考试 | NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC); usually abbr. … | |
| 试水 | to run water through a system to test it (for leakages etc); (fig.) to test the waters; to… | |
| 中试 | pilot test (in product development etc) | |
| 中试 | to pass a test | |
| 海试 | sea trial (of a vessel) | |
| 试金 | assay | |
| 试行 | to try out; to test | |
| 会试 | metropolitan examination (imperial civil service examination) | |
| 试手 | to work for a trial period; worker on probation | |
| 面试官 | interviewer | |
| 面试 | to be interviewed (as a candidate); interview | |
| 试用期 | trial period; probationary period |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 式 — compare how they read.