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  *品* | 品* | *品
(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods / (bound form) grade; rank / kind; type; variety / character; disposition; nature; temperament / to taste sth; to sample / to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up / fret (on a guitar or lute)
HSK 5
flavor; taste / (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...) / (fig.) interest; delight / (dialect) smell; odor
HSK 2
generous / magnanimous / stylish / in good taste / easy-mannered / natural and relaxed
HSK 4
taste
HSK 4
esthetics / appreciating the arts / taste
HSK 7-9
a person's preferences / tastes (in food) / flavor
HSK 7-9
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  *尝* | 尝* | *尝
to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once
HSK 5
to have a taste of; to sample
HSK 7-9
tasty; to taste good
HSK 7-9
sweet taste (of power, success etc); benefit
HSK 7-9
taste bud(s)
tacky / inelegant / in poor taste / vulgar / banal
elegant / elegance / good taste
boiled noodles served without broth, topped with just a sprinkle of oil and some chopped spring onions, to which customers add vinegar, soy sauce or chili oil according to their taste
to like / fond of / to prefer / to love / one's tastes / preference
HSK 7-9
taste / flavor / feeling
HSK 7-9
to sample; to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste
sense of taste / gustation
unfamiliar at first but you get used to it / strangers are first meeting, but soon friends / an acquired taste
sharp-tongued / to have a keen sense of taste / to be picky about one's food
to cater to the public's taste / kitsch / commercial
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  *腍* | 腍* | *腍
be satiated / cooked / good-tasting
rank / grade / quality / (aesthetic) taste
HSK 7-9
to have a taste of / to realize / to appreciate
HSK 7-9
body odor / to appreciate a subtle taste
lit. likes and dislikes / preferences / taste
interest / taste
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践, in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
pungent (taste) / bitter / fig. sad / miserable
HSK 7-9
strong (taste, flavor, smell)
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine
authentic taste / plain cooked / natural flavor (without spices and seasonings)
to taste (fresh food or a delicacy) / (fig.) to try sth new
vulgar / poor taste
to taste wine / to sip wine
(of two performers) to speak or sing alternately / to be fit for the purposes of a job or task / (of food) to suit sb's taste
fun; interest; delight / taste; liking; preference
HSK 7-9
to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹) / to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game; to give sb a taste of his own medicine
umami, one of the five basic tastes (cookery)
to taste tea / to sip tea
elegant / refined / in good taste
to one's taste / to one's liking
delicacy and fine taste (idiom); a wonderful treat
to have a taste for the exotic (idiom)
lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen
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  *咂* | 咂* | *咂
to sip / to smack one's lips / to taste / to savor
lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom)
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  *呫* | 呫* | *呫
to drink / to sip / to taste / to lick / whisper / petty
to adapt to sb's taste / to fit sb's fancy
Western taste / Western style
demon in Buddhism / poltergeist in temple that plays tricks on monks and has a taste for their food
lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom) / fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine
much obliged / thank you / to ask advice / (ironically or humorously) to experience / to taste
to suit one's taste / suitable / congenial / by mutual agreement
to comply in order to please others / to accommodate sb else's taste / to make fun of
spleen and stomach (digestive organs in TCM) / preferences / one's taste (e.g. in literature)
(dialect) to savor / to test the taste of / (fig.) to ponder upon / to mull over
to have good taste
exquisite / in good taste
lit. tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom) / fig. tasteless; insipid
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
to improve taste / to make sth palatable
nice and salty (taste)
everyone has their likes and dislikes / there is no accounting for taste / chacun son goût
(literary) to pander to popular tastes; to conform opportunistically to prevailing trends
to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food)
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  *味* | 味* | *味
taste / smell / (fig.) (noun suffix) feel / quality / sense / (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription
delicacy and fine taste (idiom); a wonderful treat
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
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
(of food) to have the right taste / (of people) to feel at ease
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  *漤* | 漤* | *漤
to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste / to marinate in salt etc / to pickle
spicy hot (taste) / fig. biting (criticism)
(of a taste or smell) earthy
acerbic (taste) / astringent
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
to show poor taste
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  *尝* | 尝* | *尝
to taste; to experience (variant of 嘗|尝)
HSK 5
to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food)
blind taste testing
bitter taste / bitterness
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  *滋* | 滋* | *滋
to grow / to nourish / to increase / to cause / juice / taste / (dialect) to spout / to spurt
well-aged wine with a mellow, rich taste / (esp.) yellow wine 黃酒|黄酒, made from rice or millet
sweetness; sweet taste
to read smoothly (of text) / to blurt out (without thinking) / to suit one's taste (of food)
an eye for an eye (idiom); fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine
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  *辛* | 辛* | *辛
(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa
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  *荼* | 荼* | *荼
thistle / common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus) / bitter (taste) / cruel / flowering grass in profusion
to smell, look and taste great
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  *啖* | 啖* | *啖
to eat / to taste / to entice (using bait)
to remove astringent taste
taste in clothes; dress sense; fashion sense
boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs
to have a tingling sensation in one's nose (due to grief, pungent odor or taste) / to be choked up
to find to one's taste / to pick (after looking at) / Taiwan pr. [xiang4 zhong4]
kitsch / vulgar art / art in bad taste
lingual papillae / taste buds
to taste (wine etc)
to taste tea / to sip tea

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