Chinese symbol for “inquest”
审讯
shěn xùn
Traditional: 審訊
inquest; trial; interrogation; to try
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inquest is 审讯 (shěn xùn), defined as: inquest; trial; interrogation; to try; to interrogate.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 审讯.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 审查 (審查) | shěn chá | to examine; to investigate |
| 审判 (審判) | shěn pàn | a trial; to try sb |
| 审议 (審議) | shěn yì | (of a committee etc) to deliberate; to consider; to discuss |
| 审核 (審核) | shěn hé | to audit; to investigate thoroughly |
| 审批 (審批) | shěn pī | to examine and approve; to endorse |
| 审理 (審理) | shěn lǐ | to hear (a case) |
| 资讯 (資訊) | zī xùn | information |
| 通讯 (通訊) | tōng xùn | communications; news story |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inquest”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.