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験

験 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. あかし、むくい、きざし、ききめ、効能。
  2. しらべる、ためす、こころみる。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「驗」の略体。「驗」については驗#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

verification, effect, testing

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ケンElem.
  • ゲンHS
Kun (native)
  • あかし
  • しるし
  • ため(す)
  • ためし
Other languages
  • 拼音yan4
  • 한글heom
  • Hán-ViệtNghiệm

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
18 strokes
Radical
馬(うま)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 3
Unicode
U+9A13

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰馬㑒

Words using this kanji

  • 験げん（ゲン）修験者。修験者がなす不思議の技。 （ゲン）ききめ、効験。 （ゲン）運気。縁起。omen, fortune, effect (e.g. of prayers; as the result of intense training), efficacy
  • 験者けんざ修験道の行者。修験者。mountaineering ascetic, practitioner of mountain asceticism
  • 験するけんする検査する。試験する。しらべる。たしかめる。 体験する。見聞きする。to try (out), to test, to put to the test, to put to a trial
  • 験水コックけんすいコックgauge cock, try cock

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-10-8
Four Corner
7833.6
Spahn–Hadamitzky
10a8.4
Heisig
2134
Nelson
5220