Mnemonic
A horse gallops into a puppet theater and the audience gasps — is it a real animal or just another marionette? Officials rush onstage for verification, tugging its mane and inspecting its hooves. The horse bites a dangling puppet in frustration, proving beyond all doubt it is alive. Verification complete!
Additional thoughts
Picture stern inspectors pulling on a snorting horse's tail while lifeless puppets dangle around it — the contrast between real and fake anchors the idea of testing and confirming truth.Quick recall
Inspectors test a horse among puppets to perform verification that it's real.Details
The keyword for 験 is verification. This kanji conveys the idea of testing, examining, or confirming something through experience or experimentation. It carries the sense of checking whether something is true or effective by putting it to the proof. The character is commonly associated with concepts of examination, experience, and empirical confirmation.
- On'yomi
- けん、げん
- Kun'yomi
- あかし、しるし、ため.す、ためし