TSUMUGU · TOCFL B2 (est.) · 字
審
審 ＝ 宀 ＋ 釆
ㄕㄣˇ · shěn
verb — to examine closely, investigate; to try (a case)
字源 FORM — what the parts do
宀義a roof — indoors, behind closed doors
釆義sorting apart — animal tracks read claw by claw; worn to look like 米 today
A roof (宀) over a thing read apart indoors — to examine thoroughly behind closed doors. From close looking, the legal weight: 審查、審問、審判. The old graph carries two tellings of what sits under the roof: 釆, the picture of tracks told apart claw by claw — to sort and distinguish; or 番 fān, the same paw-on-field lending its sound.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
關起門（宀）來，一爪一爪（釆）把痕跡分清楚——審。
Behind the closed roof (宀), the tracks (釆) read apart one claw at a time — you examine.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)詳審、審察— to examine thoroughly常用
→審查、審問— to investigate; to interrogate常用
⇒審判、審理— to try, to judge a case
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension