IDENTITY
试shìto try; to test
HSK 2Top 530
CORE MEANING
to try; to test
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to tryHSK2
- 2.to take an examHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 讠speech radical (yán)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰讠式
- words
- gives the sound shì
USAGE
Common words
考试kǎoshìexam
试试shìshito have a try
Graded examples
你试试这件衣服。Nǐ shìshi zhè jiàn yīfu.HSK2
Try on this piece of clothing.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 式
LEARNING
Memory aid
Using words (讠) as a pattern (式) — testing, trying.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #530
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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