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嘗

嘗

嘗 U+5617, 嘗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5617
← 嘖
[U+5616] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嘘 →
[U+5618]
See also: 尝

Translingual

Han character

嘗 (radical 30 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 火月口心日 (FBRPA), four-corner 90601, composition ⿳龸口旨)

  1. taste
  2. experience, experiment

References

  • KangXi: page 206, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4205
  • Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1529, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5617

Chinese

trad. 嘗
simp. 尝

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嘗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 市羊切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑɨaŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiaŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cháng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 嘗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cháng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.daŋ/
English taste (v.)

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 嘗
Reading # 1/1
No. 11153
Phonetic
component		 尚
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 常
Old
Chinese		 /*djaŋ/
Notes 同甞

Definitions

嘗

  1. to taste (try the flavour of)
  2. to try
  3. to experience
  4. already; ever
  5. A surname​.

References

Japanese

Kanji

嘗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

嘗 • ‎(sang) (hangeul 상, revised sang, McCune-Reischauer sang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘗 (thường)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 嘗
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (尚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
當 *taːŋ, *taːŋs
襠 *taːŋ
鐺 *taːŋ, *sʰraːŋ
簹 *taːŋ
璫 *taːŋ
檔 *taːŋ, *taːŋs
儅 *taːŋ, *taːŋs
蟷 *taːŋ
擋 *taːŋʔ, *taːŋs
黨 *taːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋʔ
讜 *taːŋʔ
欓 *taːŋʔ
譡 *taːŋs
闣 *taːŋs
瓽 *taːŋs
鏜 *tʰaːŋ
闛 *tʰaːŋ, *daːŋ
鼞 *tʰaːŋ
曭 *tʰaːŋʔ
儻 *tʰaːŋʔ, *tʰaːŋs
戃 *tʰaːŋʔ
矘 *tʰaːŋʔ
爣 *tʰaːŋʔ
攩 *hl'aːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋʔ, *ɦʷlaːŋs
淌 *tʰaːŋʔ
倘 *tʰaːŋʔ
躺 *tʰaːŋʔ
趟 *tʰaːŋs, *rtaːŋ, *rtaːŋs
堂 *daːŋ
坣 *daːŋ
棠 *daːŋ
糛 *daːŋ
螳 *daːŋ
隚 *daːŋ
橖 *daːŋ
掌 *tjaŋʔ
廠 *tʰjaŋʔ, *tʰjaŋs
敞 *tʰjaŋʔ
僘 *tʰjaŋʔ
氅 *tʰjaŋʔ
常 *djaŋ
嘗 *djaŋ
裳 *djaŋ
徜 *djaŋ
尚 *djaŋ, *djaŋs
甞 *djaŋ
鋿 *djaŋ
嫦 *djaŋ
償 *djaŋ, *djaŋs
賞 *hjaŋʔ
瞠 *rtʰaːŋ
撐 *rtʰaːŋ
樘 *rtʰaːŋ
橕 *rtʰaːŋ
牚 *rtʰaːŋs
埫 *tʰoŋʔ

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