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験

verification, effect, testing

JLPTN4StatusJōyō · grade 4FrequencyTop 500Strokes18

Readings

On'yomi

  • ケン
  • ゲン

Kun'yomi

  • あかし
  • しるし
  • ため.す
  • ためし

Meaning

験 centers on putting something to the test to confirm its truth or effectiveness: verifying, testing, or seeing the effect of something.

Most common words using 験

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  • 経験けいけん
    N4

    experience

  • 体験たいけん
    N2

    (practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience

  • 試験しけん
    N4

    examination; exam; test

  • 実験じっけん
    N4

    experiment; experimentation

  • 受験じゅけん
    N3

    taking an examination (esp. for entrance to a school or university)

  • 受験生じゅけんせい
    N3

    student preparing for or taking examinations (usu. entrance exams); test-taker

  • 被験者ひけんしゃ

    subject (of a medical experiment, etc.); test subject; trial subject; testee

  • 実体験じったいけん

    real experience; actual observations

  • 治験ちけん

    clinical trial

  • 験げん

    omen; fortune

  • 試験管しけんかん

    test tube

  • 試験場しけんじょう

    examination hall; examination room

  • 霊験れいげん

    miraculous efficacy; miracle; miraculous virtue

  • 被験ひけん

    experimental; trial; test

  • リトマス試験紙リトマスしけんし

    litmus paper

  • 経験者けいけんしゃ

    experienced person; person who has had a particular experience

  • 核実験かくじっけん

    nuclear (bomb) test

  • 国家試験こっかしけん

    state examination; national examination

  • 実験室じっけんしつ

    laboratory

  • 試験的しけんてき

    experimental; provisional

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Etymology

験 is the modern simplified form of 驗. The older form combines 馬 (horse) with 僉, which likely contributed the sound and originally related to examining or inspecting horses. The modern right side 㑒 is a simplified version of 僉.

Meaning mnemonic

The left side is a horse 馬, and the right side 㑒 looks like a person with a measuring tool. Imagine testing a horse's strength or verifying its health by putting it through a trial.

Reading mnemonic

For ケン, picture a scientist named Ken conducting an experiment to test the horse's stamina: Ken -> ケン, and he verifies the effect.