試験

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 試験, read しけん, is a test of a person's knowledge or of a material or machine's performance.
• Basic usage: It can be an academic examination scheduled for tomorrow or the technical testing of a new material's durability.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Testing knowledge and testing a material
  • It applies to an examination of knowledge and to a test of a new material's durability. Context distinguishes evaluating a person from evaluating a material.