Kanji N1

審: hearing, judge, trial

審 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning hearing, judge, trial, written with 15 strokes. It is read シン (on) and つまびらか, つぶさに (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 審議 (しんぎ, deliberation) and 審査 (しんさ, judging).

審

Meanings

  • hearing
  • judge
  • trial
Strokes15
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#412 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • シン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • つまびらか
  • つぶさに

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 審

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 審議しんぎ

    deliberation; discussion; consideration

    JLPT N1
  • 審査しんさ

    judging; inspection; examination; investigation

    JLPT N1
  • 審判しんぱん

    judgement; judgment; decision; verdict; sentence

    JLPT N3
  • 不審ふしん

    doubt; suspicion; question; strangeness

    JLPT N1
  • 審理しんり

    trial

  • 陪審ばいしん

    jury

  • 再審さいしん

    retrial; reopening of a case

  • 主審しゅしん

    chief umpire; referee (soccer, boxing, etc.)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.