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试验 (shì yàn): meaning and stroke order

试验 (shì yàn) means experiment, test, CL:次个, to experiment, experimental.

试验

Simplified
试验
Traditional
試驗
Pinyin
shì yàn

Stroke order of 试验

试

  • shì to test; to try
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 試

Stroke by stroke

验

  • yàn variant of 驗|验[yan4]
  • yàn to examine; to test
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 騐

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 试验

  1. shì yàn Traditional 試驗
    • experiment
    • test
    • CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]
    • to experiment
    • experimental

Radicals of the characters

试
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 讠 on the left, 式 on the right
验
Radical 马 (Kangxi radical 187) in its simplified form · 10 strokes · 马 on the left, 佥 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

试验 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 与其花半年写软件，不如先做个简单的试验。

    yǔqí huā bàn nián xiě ruǎnjiàn bùrú xiān zuò gè jiǎndān de shìyàn

    Rather than spend six months writing software, they decided, better to run a simple test first.

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 试验

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).