yàn
test
Original meaning:
type of horse
Phonosemantic compound. 马 represents the meaning and 佥 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "type of horse". The current meaning is a phonetic loan. Simplified form of 驗.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 验
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
experience | ||
test | ||
laboratory | ||
test | ||
to experience for oneself |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 51.6579% of movies
708th most common character in movies
534th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9A8C |
Sources
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