尝 (cháng) is a Chinese word meaning “to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once”.
Meanings
- 1to taste; to try (food)
- 2to experience
- 3(literary) ever; once
- Part of speech
- verb
Related words
尝试to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)尝to taste; to experience (variant of 嘗|尝[chang2])尝old variant of 嘗|尝[chang2]品尝to have a taste of; to sample品尝variant of 品嚐|品尝[pin3 chang2]何尝(rhetorical question) when?未尝not ever卧薪尝胆lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 jian4], in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)卧薪尝胆variant of 臥薪嘗膽|卧薪尝胆[wo4 xin1 chang2 dan3]饱尝to enjoy fully浅尝辄止lit. to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); fig. to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop备尝辛苦(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships