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.