IDENTITY
尝chángto taste; to try
HSK 4Top 950
CORE MEANING
to taste; to try
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to tasteHSK4
- 2.to try; to experienceHSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱龸云
- mouth
- part of the structure
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
品尝pǐnchángto taste
尝试chángshìto try
Graded examples
他尝过很多苦。Tā cháng guo hěn duō kǔ.HSK5
He has endured much hardship.
RELATIONS
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) sampling the dish (old 旨 over 冖) — tasting. (From 嘗.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #950
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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