to test / to try / experiment / examination / test

= + : Sherlock Holmes is doing an eye examination with the goth in the space station's bathroom. Sherlock set up a table with differently sized letters on an advertising column and has the goth read out the letters.

试 character breakdown

type / form / pattern / style

= + : I'll use a specific style as mnemonic symbol: 哥特式, gothic.

Sherlock Holmes and the goth are celebrating a Viking festival in the space station's bathroom. They don't have trunks to throw around, so they use a steel beam. They also celebrate by practising archery. In zero gravity it is easy for them to set one world record after the next.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 试 as component

试 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 试

to attempt / to try
examination paper / test paper / CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
I would like to ask (usually used rhetorically) / one might well ask
erhua variant of 試手|试手[shi4 shou3]
trial broadcast
Petri dish / test dish / trial slide
to run water through a system to test it (for leakages etc) / (fig.) to test the waters; to do (sth) on a trial basis
reagent / test solution / experimental liquid
to refine with fire
trial explosion / nuclear test
inspection copy (of a textbook etc) / trial edition
test planting / crop grown on a trial basis
spreadsheet / trial balance (accountancy)
in vitro fertilisation / test tube fertilisation
audition / to give sb an audition / to check by listening
user of shareware or demo software
to work for a trial period / worker on probation
to work for a trial period / worker on probation

Sentences with 试

tái
lái
gěi
ta̅
shì
shì