審

審 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 十竹木田 (JHDW), four-corner 3060₉, composition ⿱宀番)

• 𰃀 𡂹 嬸 瀋 㰂 讅 𧺀 㔤 𣠒 𧺁 覾

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 291, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7316
• Dae Jaweon: page 577, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 954, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5BE9

Historical forms of the character 審
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 宀 (“roof”) + 釆 (“to distinguish”) + 田. There are two theories about the component 田. One is that it was originally 口 (“mouth”), then corrupted into 曰 (“say”), then further into 田. The other one is that its a remnant from a variant form ⿱宷思 with 心 omitted. The Shuowen Jiezi describes 審 as the seal script variant of 宷.

審

1. to examine; to investigate
2. (law) to try; to judge
3. (literary, or in compounds) meticulous
4. (literary, or in compounds) indeed

• (to examine):

• (to try):

• (meticulous):

• (antonym(s) of “meticulous”):

• “審”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. examine

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: つまびらか (tsumabiraka, 審らか)

審 • (sim) (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune–Reischauer sim)

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審: Hán Nôm readings: thẩm, săm, sẩm, thắm, thẳm, thấm, thủm, thẫm

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