The kanji character 審 carries the core meaning of examining, investigating, judging, or deliberating carefully. It is often used in contexts that require deep inspection, careful trial, or official evaluation.

List the readings of the kanji character: ・On-yomi (音読み): しん ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): つまびらか

Provide specific examples of how this kanji is used. ⚫︎審査 Translation: Screening, inspection, or investigation ⚫︎審判 Translation: Referee, judge, or judgment ⚫︎不審 Translation: Suspicious, dubious, or questionable

If the user's native language is Vietnamese, kanji and Vietnamese have about a seventy percent correspondence rate due to Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary. The modern Vietnamese word derived from Sino-Vietnamese (漢越語) that shares the exact same origin as the kanji 審 is thẩm. It is commonly used in Vietnamese words such as thẩm tra (to inspect or examine) and thẩm phán (a judge).

The kanji character 審 is an ideographic compound or phono-semantic compound. Historically, it combines the roof or house radical 宀 and the character 番, which originally represented turning or counting. Together, they visually suggest people gathering under a roof to deliberate, investigate, or judge matters carefully and thoroughly.