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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嘗* | 嘗* | *嘗
to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once
HSK 5
to try; to attempt / CL:
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *嚐* | 嚐* | *嚐
to taste; to experience (variant of 嘗|尝)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *甞* | 甞* | *甞
old variant of 嘗|尝
HSK 5
variant of 品嚐|品尝
HSK 7-9
to have a taste of; to sample
HSK 7-9
not ever / not necessarily
(rhetorical question) when? / how? / it's not that...
(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
to enjoy fully / to experience to the full over a long period
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
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
to taste (fresh food or a delicacy) / (fig.) to try sth new
to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
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
Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)


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