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测试

cè shì 4–4

to test (machinery etc); to test (a person's skill in a particular area); a test; (computing) beta (version of software)

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
测 · 试
Syllables
2
cè shì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,430

Part of speech: vn,v

Character by character

  • 测cè9 strokesHSK 4 traditional 測measure, estimate, conjecture
  • 试shì8 strokesHSK 1 traditional 試test, try, experiment

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 这是一个测试。

    Zhè shì yī gè cè shì

    This is a test.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 测试. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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