尝 — Chinese character
尝
cháng
to taste; to experience, to experiment with
- Pinyin
- cháng
- Radical
- 42 ⼩ (Small)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 尚 云
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speak; meaning component 云; sound component 尚
- Traditional
- 嘗
Common words with 尝
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尝试 (嘗試) | cháng shì | to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it) |
| 品尝 (品嘗) | pǐn cháng | variant of 品尝 (pǐn cháng) |
| 品尝 (品嚐) | pǐn cháng | to have a taste of; to sample |
| 未尝 (未嘗) | wèi cháng | not ever; not necessarily |
| 何尝 (何嘗) | hé cháng | (rhetorical question) when?; how? |
| 卧薪尝胆 (臥薪嘗膽) | wò xīn cháng dǎn | (lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾践 (Gōu jiàn), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom); (fig.) to maintain one's re |
| 卧薪尝胆 (臥薪嚐膽) | wò xīn cháng dǎn | variant of 卧薪尝胆 (wò xīn cháng dǎn) |
| 尝鲜 (嘗鮮) | cháng xiān | to taste (fresh food or a delicacy); (fig.) to try sth new |
| 饱尝 (飽嘗) | bǎo cháng | to enjoy fully; to experience to the full over a long period |
| 浅尝辄止 (淺嘗輒止) | qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ | (lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop |
| 浅尝 (淺嘗) | qiǎn cháng | 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 (未嘗不可) | wèi cháng bù kě | (idiom) acceptable; fine; okay |
English words written with 尝
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.