Keyword
to taste
- to experience
- to experiment with
- Frequency
- #1455
- Strokes
- 9
Readings
cháng100%
Mnemonic
云 (speak) gives the meaning and 尚 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
尝试
to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
尝
to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once; to taste; to experience (variant of 尝 (cháng))
品尝
to have a taste of; to sample
未尝
not ever; not necessarily
何尝
(rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
卧薪尝胆
(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾践 (Gōujiàn), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom); (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge
尝鲜
to taste (fresh food or a delicacy); (fig.) to try sth new
饱尝
to enjoy fully; to experience to the full over a long period
孟尝君
Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
浅尝辄止
(lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop
浅尝
to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink); (fig.) to dabble in; to flirt with (a topic)
未尝不可
(idiom) acceptable; fine; okay