U+8BD5 "试" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8BD5 "试" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that functions primarily as a verb meaning "to test," "to try," or "to experiment." In modern Standard Mandarin, it is pronounced as "shì" and appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, such as in the words 考试 (kǎoshì, meaning "exam" or "test") and 尝试 (chángshì, meaning "to attempt" or "to try"). The character combines the radical 讠 (yán, related to speech) on the left with the phonetic component 式 (shì) on the right, reflecting its composition as a semantic phonetic compound.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8BD5
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	试
HTML Hex Encoding	试
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xAF 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8BD5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008BD5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8bd5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	27585B
kCangjie	IVIPM
kCantonese	si3
kDefinition	test, try, experiment
kEACC	27585B
kFourCornerCode	3374
kGB0	4252
kHanYu	63961.010
kHanyuPinlu	shì(374)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63961.010
kIRGKangXi	1188.181
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A54
kTGH	2013:1286
kKangXi	1188.181
kMainlandTelegraph	6107
kMandarin	shì
kPhonetic	1193*
kRSUnicode	149'.6
kTGHZ2013	337.050:shì
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"試" U+8A66 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1048.020:shì