试
shì HSK1

test

试 試 shì
to try verb
to try; to test; to experiment; to attempt to see if a method or object works

我在试着煮一道新菜。

wǒ zài shì zhe zhǔ yī dào xīn cài.

I'm trying to cook a new dish.

我们应该试着去理解父母。

wǒ​men yīng​gāi shì zhe qù lǐ​jiě fù​mǔ.

We should try to understand our parents.

to take an exam nounverb
(bound form) to take an examination; to test one's knowledge or skills
to probe verbadjective
to probe; to scout; to sound out; to explore or test a situation
Shi
(surname) Shi

Frequency
Character
Written text
643rd most common 320.0 per million
Movie subtitles
288th most common 573.1 per million appears in 86% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
215.6 per million appears in 54% of films
Written text
92.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
試
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+8BD5

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)