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Character Decomposition
尝=尚+云
Etymology
speak
Meanings
to taste; to try (food)
to experience
(literary) ever; once
to taste; to experience (variant of cháng)
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Words with 尝 71 total
to enjoy fully · to experience to the full over a long period饱尝bǎo chángto 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尝粪cháng fènto taste (fresh food or a delicacy) · (fig.) to try sth new尝鲜cháng xiān(rhetorical question) when? · how? · it's not that...何尝hé cháng
Idioms with 尝 14 total Chain
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships备尝辛苦bèi cháng xīn kǔ(lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop浅尝辄止qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) · (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge卧薪尝胆wò xīn cháng dǎn