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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
cháng - to taste; to try (food)
- to experience
- (literary) ever; once
cháng - to taste; to experience (variant of 嘗|尝[chang2])
cháng - old variant of 嘗|尝[chang2]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
4 5 3,035 3,392 5,614

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Speak

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
尝试 6 5 1,383 3,143 2,475
4 5 3,035 3,392 5,614
品尝 6 7 7,385 8,941 6,119
何尝 - - 28,249 28,694 24,037
未尝 - - 29,932 23,530 25,309
卧薪尝胆 - - 42,818 39,958 29,151
饱尝 - - 46,719 45,169 38,753
浅尝辄止 - - 56,381 66,066 48,168