試 — test, try, attempt

ためす試 test

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 13 strokes school

U+8A66 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #392 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #378 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

test
try
attempt
experiment
ordeal

word

ため tame Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

試(ため) す tamesu to try 試(ため) し tameshi trial

し shi On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

試(し) 合(あい) shiai match 試(し) 験(けん) shiken exam 入(にゅう) 試(し) nyuushi entrance examination 試(し) 写(しゃ) shisha preview 試(し) 算(さん) shisan trial calculation 試(し) 練(れん) shiren trial 試(し) 作(さく) shisaku prototype 試(し) 食(しょく) shishoku food tasting

こころ kokoro Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

試(こころ) みる kokoromiru to try 試(こころ) み kokoromi attempt

Appears in idioms

試行錯誤四字熟語

test, go, confused, mistake

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

げん言 say #149

しき式 style

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#149 言 speech