Kanji1 / 13
試 kanji
test, try, attempt, experiment, ordeal
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
シ
Kun readings
こころみるためす
Words with 試
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —国試state examination (esp. for qualifying as a doctor, dentist, nurse, etc.)
- —試供offering something free as a promotion
- —司試bar examination
- —院試graduate school entrance examination
- —試金assay (of metal, ore, etc.); assaying
- —試訴test case
- —試訳trial translation; tentative translation
- —考試test; exam
- —試製trial manufacture (cultivation, etc.)
- —供試providing (a sample, product, etc.) for testing
- —試買trial purchase
- —試錐boring; drilling
- —試鑽boring; drilling
- —試遊test-playing (of a video game before release or purchase); playing a demo
- —試奏trying out (a musical instrument; e.g. in a store); test-playing
- —試読reading on a trial basis (e.g. a newspaper); trying out (a newspaper, magazine, etc.); preparatory reading
- —試抄test-making a paper
- —試弾trying out (a piano, organ, etc.); test-playing; test-firing (a gun, cannon, etc.)
- —再試験reexamination; resit; make-up (exam)
- —再試行retry; trying again