Chinese Character Wiki
试

shì

test

Simplified form of 試. Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 式 represents the sound.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

式 sound component

式  Sound component

shì

  

style

Evolution

试 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
试 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
试 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
试 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

试 (試) 

shì

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

Most common words with 试
Freq.
Word
Meaning

试

to test

考试

exam

测试

test

试验

test

试图

to attempt

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 86.0644% of movies

288th most common character in movies

643rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

試

Unicode

U+8BD5


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