体验
tǐyàn · HSK 3
learn through practice/experience
🧪 体验 = body (体) + test (验) — knowledge tested through the body
体 means body and 验 means to test or verify. Together they mean learning verified through your own body — practice and lived experience, not secondhand knowledge.
验 — horse radical 马 + 佥 (all/together)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The horse radical 马 originally referred to inspecting horses, while 佥 (qiān, 'all together') supplied the sound. Over time the meaning broadened from 'examine a horse' to 'test, examine, verify' in general.