嘗
cháng HSK5

taste

尝 (嘗) cháng
taste verb
to taste or try food

你尝一下这个汤咸不咸。

nǐ cháng yī​xià zhèi gè tāng xián bù xián.

Taste this soup to see if it's salty.

experience verb
to experience or undergo

他尝到了失败的滋味。

tā cháng dào le shī​bài de zī​wèi.

He has tasted the bitterness of failure.

ever adverb
once or formerly in the past

我未尝见过如此美景。

wǒ wèi cháng jiàn guo rú​cǐ měi​jǐng.

I have never seen such beautiful scenery before.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,621st most common 59.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,029th most common 99.6 per million appears in 36% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.9 per million appears in 9% of films
Written text
36.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Simplified
尝
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+5617

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)