Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- cháng
English
- taste
- to taste; to try (food)
- experience, experiment
- to experience
- (literary) ever; once
- to taste; to experience
- to try
粵語
- 用口嚟試,即係品嚐
- 試
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 嘗
- 嘗試soeng4 si3
to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
- 品嘗ban2 soeng4
variant of 品嚐|品尝[pin3 chang2]
- 未嘗mei6 soeng4
not ever
- 何嘗ho4 soeng4
(rhetorical question) when?
- 飽嘗baau2 soeng4
to enjoy fully
- 未嘗不可mei6 soeng4 bat1 ho2
(idiom) acceptable; fine; okay
- 嘗糞soeng4 fan3
to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety)
- 嘗新soeng4 san1
try new things; to innovate
- 淺嘗cin2 soeng4
to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink)
- 嘗鮮soeng4 sin1
to taste (fresh food or a delicacy)
- 孟嘗君maang6 soeng4 gwan1
Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- 嘗試錯誤soeng4 si3 co3 ng6
to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
- 嘗盡心酸soeng4 zeon6 sam1 syun1
to experience one's full share of sorrows (idiom)
- 淺嘗者cin2 soeng4 ze2
- 望君嘗糞mong6 gwan1 soeng4 fan3
a elegant way of expressing hostility, literally "looking at you eating shit"
- 臥薪嘗膽ngo6 san1 soeng4 daam2
(lit.) to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Goujian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 jian4], in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom)
- 非嘗不可fei1 soeng4 bat1 ho2
- 淺嘗輒止cin2 soeng4 zip3 zi2
(lit.) to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); (fig.) to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop
- 備嘗辛苦bei6 soeng4 san1 fu2
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
- 備嘗艱苦bei6 soeng4 gaan1 fu2
see 備嘗辛苦|备尝辛苦[bei4 chang2 xin1 ku3]
- 何嘗唔係ho4 soeng4 m4 hai6