Chinese Character Wiki
試

shì

test

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 式 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

式 sound component

式  Sound component

shì

  

style

Evolution

試 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
試 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
試 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
試 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
試 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

试 (試) 

shì

test, try, experiment; to test; to try; experiment; examination; test

Most common words with 試
Freq.
Word
Meaning

试

to test

考试

exam

测试

test

试验

test

试图

to attempt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ək-s

syiH

shì

test, try


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 86.0644% of movies

288th most common character in movies

643rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

试

Unicode

U+8A66

Shuowen

“試，用也。从言，式聲。《虞書》曰：‘明試以功。’”


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