嘗

cháng

taste; experience, experiment

How to write 嘗, stroke by stroke

to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once; to taste; to experience (variant of 尝); old variant of 尝

Pictophonetic: semantic 旨 (purpose), phonetic 尚

Made of 尚 + 旨

嘗試cháng shìto try; to attempt
何嘗hé cháng(rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
未嘗wèi chángnot ever; not necessarily
嘗鮮cháng xiānto taste (fresh food or a delicacy); (fig.) to try sth new
飽嘗bǎo chángto enjoy fully; to experience to the full over a long period
淺嘗qiǎn chángto merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink); (fig.) to dabble in; to flirt with (a topic)
嘗糞cháng fènto taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety); to suck up to sb; to kiss ass
嘗試錯誤cháng shì cuò wùto proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
品嚐pǐn chángvariant of 品尝
備嘗辛苦bèi cháng xīn kǔ(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
未嘗不可wèi cháng bù kě(idiom) acceptable; fine; okay
嘗盡心酸cháng jìn xīn suānto experience one's full share of sorrows (idiom)

嘗試在下一次做得更好。
cháng shì zài xià yí cì zuò dé gèng hǎo 。
Try and do better next time.
嘗嘗成功的味道。
cháng cháng chéng gōng de wèi dào 。
Taste the flavour of success.
我能嘗點你的麵包嗎？
wǒ néng cháng diǎn nǐ de miàn bāo má ？
Can I try your bread?
你嘗過真正飢餓的滋味嗎？
nǐ cháng guò zhēn zhèng jī è de zī wèi má ？
Do you know what it is like to be really hungry?
兩隊至今均未嘗敗績。
liǎng duì zhì jīn jūn wèi cháng bài jì 。
Both teams are unbeaten.