審 means “examine, judge, hearing”

しん · shin

Also: trial

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading): つまびらか, つぶさに
On'yomi (Chinese reading): シン

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 15 strokes

The story

Under a roof (宀), 番, whose top (釆) the Shuowen reads as paw prints: picture studying tracks to tell who passed. 審査 is a careful screening, a 審判 is a referee, and the 不審者 on a school's warning notice is a suspicious person.

Used in 審査 (shinsa, screening/examination), 審判 (shinpan, referee/judgment), and 不審 (fushin, suspicion/doubt)

審 means “examine, judge, hearing”

The story

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