漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
験: verification, effect
Also: testing
JLPT N418 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
- 馬horse(meaning)
- 㑒(sound)
馬 carries the meaning · 㑒 gives the sound
18 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds
- 試験するしけんするexamine
- 経験するけいけんするexperience [v.t.]
- 実験するじっけんするexperiment [v.t.]
- 受験するじゅけんするtake an examination
- 体験するたいけんするexperience [v.t.]
- 経験けいけん
- 試験しけん
- 実験じっけん
Also read ゲン, あかし, しるし, ためす, ためし, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)馬 (meaning) + 僉 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 驗 (rev. 92627881), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Horse (馬) + all/whole. Originally related to a thorough "check" of a "horse's" health—now used for "testing" knowledge or having an "experience."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
㑒
Also built on 㑒
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side験 verification · 㑒
vs騎 equestrian · 奇In ChineseSimplified 验 · traditional 驗 · yàn
Three different forms: Japanese 験, simplified 验, traditional 驗.
- Simplified
- 验 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 驗 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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