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尝

cháng

taste

Simplified form of 嘗. Phonosemantic compound. 旨 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.

Components
尚 sound component

尚  Sound component

shàng

  

esteem

云 simplified component

云  Simplified component

yún

  

clouds

Shorthand for the 旨 component in the traditional character 嘗.

Evolution

尝 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
尝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
尝 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
尝 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
尝 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

尝 (嘗) 

cháng

taste; experience, experiment; to taste; to try; to experience; already; ever; once

尝 (嚐) 

cháng

variant of 嘗|尝[cháng]

尝 (甞) 

cháng

old variant of 嘗|尝[cháng]

Most common words with 尝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尝试

to try

尝

to taste

品尝

to sample

未尝

not ever

何尝

how?

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

偿

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 36.1044% of movies

1029th most common character in movies

1621st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

嘗

Unicode

U+5C1D


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