尝
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to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 小 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 嘗
- Common rank
- #2,415
- Unicode
- U+5C1D
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 尝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 未尝不可 | (idiom) acceptable; fine; okay | |
| 尝尽心酸 | to experience one's full share of sorrows (idiom) | |
| 备尝辛苦 | (idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships | |
| 尝试错误 | to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes | |
| 品尝 | variant of 品嚐|品尝[pin3 chang2] | |
| 品尝 | to have a taste of; to sample | |
| 尝试 | to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it) | |
| 备尝艰苦 | see 備嘗辛苦|备尝辛苦[bei4 chang2 xin1 ku3] | |
| 未尝 | not ever; not necessarily | |
| 卧薪尝胆 | (lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 jian4], i… | |
| 卧薪尝胆 | variant of 臥薪嘗膽|卧薪尝胆[wo4 xin1 chang2 dan3] | |
| 何尝 | (rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that... | |
| 孟尝君 | Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221… | |
| 尝鲜 | to taste (fresh food or a delicacy); (fig.) to try sth new | |
| 浅尝 | to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink); (fig.) to dabble in; to flirt wit… | |
| 饱尝 | to enjoy fully; to experience to the full over a long period | |
| 尝粪 | to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty o… | |
| 浅尝辄止 | (lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledg… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尚 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尚 sound part | still, yet; even; fairly, rather | |
| 常 | common, general, normal; always, frequently, regularly | |
| 党 | political party, gang, faction | |
| 堂 | hall, large room; government office; cousins | |
| 掌 | in charge; the palm of the hand, the sole of the foot | |
| 赏 | reward; to appreciate; to bestow, to grant | |
| 躺 | to recline, to lie down | |
| 敞 | wide, open, spacious | |
| 棠 | crabapple tree; wild plum | |
| 趟 | time, occasion; to make a journey | |
| 倘 | if, supposing, in event of | |
| 淌 | to trickle down, to flow, to drip; to shed tears | |
| 裳 | skirt, petticoat; beautiful | |
| 惝 | alarmed, agitated | |
| 徜 | to linger, to walk back and forth | |
| 绱 | the sole of a shoe; to patch, to sole | |
| 䠀 | to meditate; to sit cross-legged | |
| 牚 | variant of 撐|撑[cheng1] |