Results for “尝”

to taste / to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever / once

to taste / to experience (variant of 嘗|尝[cháng])

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to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)

to have a taste of / to sample

(rhetorical question) when? / how? / it's not that...

not ever / not necessarily

to experience one's full share of sorrows (idiom)

to 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

to proceed by trial and error / to learn by making mistakes

to taste (fresh food or a delicacy) / (fig.) to try sth new

see 備嘗辛苦|备尝辛苦[bèi cháng xīn kǔ]

(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships

(idiom) acceptable / fine / okay

to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink) / (fig.) to dabble in / to flirt with (a topic)

(lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom) / (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop

(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gōu jiàn], in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / (fig.) to maintain one's resolve for revenge

to enjoy fully / to experience to the full over a long period

variant of 品嚐|品尝[pǐn cháng]

Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

variant of 臥薪嘗膽|卧薪尝胆[wò xīn cháng dǎn]