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Kanji Detail for 嘗 - "taste, try, once"

嘗

  • Meaning

    嘗 means "taste, try, once."

    1. Taste - To sample with the tongue; to savor.

    2. Try - To attempt; to experience.

    3. Once - In the past; formerly; previously.

  • Four-character idioms with 嘗

    • 臥薪嘗胆 がしんしょうたん Listen going through thick and thin to attain one's objective; enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance

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    • Verified meaning: taste, try, once
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    once; before; formerly; ever; never; ex-; lick; lap up; burn up; taste; undergo; underrate; despise

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    taste; experience, experiment

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to taste; to experience, to experiment with

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The mouth distinguishing taste. Testing before eating whether it's edible or not. | To try. Such as wanting to do something and first testing a small part is called 嘗試. | Once; ever. (Analects) "I once engaged in this matter." Meaning once studied this matter. | A sacrifice name. The autumn sacrifice is called 嘗. An ancient ritual of sacrificing to ancestral temples.

  • Onyomi

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    joh(ジョウ) ジョウ

    shoh(ショウ) ショウ

  • Kunyomi

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    katsu.te(かつ-て) かつ-て

    kokoro.miru(こころ-みる) こころ-みる

    na.meru(な-める) な-める

  • Strokes

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    14 strokes

  • Radical

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    口 (kuchi・kuchihen)小 (sho・shogashira・naogashira)

  • Related Keywords

    taste try once festival past experience sample attempt test savor formerly previously experiment endeavor undergo

Sentences including 嘗

  • I have struggled under extreme difficulties for a long time.

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