嘗試

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See also: 尝试

Chinese

 
to taste; flavour; indicator of past tense
to taste; flavour; indicator of past tense; already; ever; once; test; formerly
 
to test; to try; experiment
to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
trad. (嘗試)
simp. (尝试)
anagram 試嘗试尝

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (25) (26)
Final () (105) (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter dzyang syiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑɨɐŋ/ /ɕɨH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiɐŋ/ /ɕɨH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑiɑŋ/ /ɕieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑɨaŋ/ /ɕɨH/
Li
Rong
/ʑiaŋ/ /ɕiəH/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭaŋ/ /ɕĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯aŋ/ /ɕiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cháng shì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
soeng4 si3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cháng shì
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyang › ‹ syiH ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.daŋ/ /*l̥ək-s/
English taste (v.) test, try

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11153 14971
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djaŋ/ /*hljɯɡs/
Notes

Verb

嘗試

  1. to attempt; to try
    他們為了解決這個問題嘗試各種方法 [MSC, trad.]
    他们为了解决这个问题尝试各种方法 [MSC, simp.]
    Tāmen wèile jiějué zhège wèntí, chángshì guò gèzhǒng fāngfǎ.
    They have tried every method to solve this problem.
    一直嘗試努力結果總是不盡人意 [MSC, trad.]
    一直尝试努力结果总是不尽人意 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ yīzhí zài chángshì nǔlì, kě jiéguǒ zǒngshì bùjìn rényì.
    I have been putting in a lot of effort, but the results are always less than satisfactory.

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Descendants

Sino-Xenic (嘗試):
  • Japanese: (しょう)() (shōshi)