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嘗

cháng

taste

Phonosemantic compound. 旨 represents the meaning and 尚 represents the sound.

Components
尚 sound component

尚  Sound component

shàng

  

esteem

旨 iconic component

旨  Iconic component

zhǐ

  

purpose

Depicts a spoon (匕) going into the mouth (口). The original meaning of 旨 was "fine-tasting".

Evolution

嘗 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
嘗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

尝 (嘗) 

cháng

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

Most common words with 嘗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

尝试

to try

尝

to taste

品尝

to sample

未尝

not ever

何尝

how?

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.daŋ

dzyang

cháng

taste (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 36.1044% of movies

1029th most common character in movies

1621st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

尝

Unicode

U+5617

Shuowen

“嘗，口味之也。从旨，尚聲。”


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