U+8A66 "試" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
試
U+8A66 "試" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji or hanzi character that represents the concept of "to test," "to try," or "to attempt," and is composed of the radical for "speech" combined with phonetic and semantic elements. It is used in both Chinese and Japanese writing systems, where it appears in words like "試験" (examination) and "試す" (to try). The character traces its origins back to ancient Chinese script, where it was originally associated with the act of testing or evaluating, and it remains a common and practical component in modern East Asian typography and digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8A66 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 試 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 試 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA9 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8A66 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008A66 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8a66 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B8D5 |
| kCCCII | 21585B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-665C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-665C |
| kCangjie | YRIPM |
| kCantonese | si3 |
| kCihaiT | 1242.303 |
| kCowles | 3903 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1622.060 |
| kDefinition | test, try, experiment |
| kEACC | 21585B |
| kFanqie | 式吏 |
| kFenn | 329B |
| kFennIndex | 454.06 455.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0364.0 |
| kGB1 | 4252 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0918n |
| kHangul | 시:0E |
| kHanYu | 63960.120 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shì(374) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63960.120:shì |
| kHKGlyph | 3785 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1622.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63960.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1157.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4A54 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B8D5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B6E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5B2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-634B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-665C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-672B |
| kJapanese | シ ショク シキ こころみる ためす こころみ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KOKOROMIRU TAMESU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 2778 |
| kKangXi | 1157.030 |
| kKorean | SI |
| kLau | 2764 |
| kMandarin | shì |
| kMatthews | 5798 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2685 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024449 |
| kMorohashi | 35415 |
| kNelson | 4361 |
| kPhonetic | 1193 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2236+149.7.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 149.6 |
| kSBGY | 357.01 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "试" U+8BD5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 646.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shì粵si3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6107 |
| kTang | *shiə̀ |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thí |
| kXerox | 244:307 |