HSK 6 · Food

品尝 pǐncháng “to taste” in Chinese

Traditional 品嚐

What 品尝 means

  1. to taste
  2. to sample
  3. to have a taste of

How to say 品尝

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale品pǐn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale尝cháng2nd tone, rising

品尝 in a sentence

  1. 新竹的贡丸和米粉非常有名，吸引不少游客品尝。

    Xīnzhú de gòngwán hé mǐfěn fēicháng yǒumíng, xīyǐn bùshǎo yóukè pǐncháng.

    Hsinchu’s meatballs and rice noodles are famous and draw many tourists to try them.

    Sentence #13537650 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 品尝 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 品 (pǐn) with each of its parts in a different colour
品pǐnarticle; commodity; product; goods
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
The character 尝 (cháng) with each of its parts in a different colour
尝chángto taste; to try
  • 尚still · shàngSound part
  • 云cloud · yúnMeaning part

云 hints at the meaning (cloud); 尚 (shàng) hints at the sound. Compare it with cháng.

How to write 品尝

品 9 strokes · 尝 9 strokes

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品尝 (pǐncháng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 品尝 (pǐncháng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 品尝

Words with 品

产品chǎnpǐn · product商品shāngpǐn · commodity作品zuòpǐn · work (of art)日用品rìyòngpǐn · articles for daily use次品cìpǐn · defective product毒品dúpǐn · drugs品种pǐnzhǒng · variety样品yàngpǐn · sample品德pǐndé · moral character品质pǐnzhì · quality

Words with 尝

尝cháng · to taste尝试chángshì · to try

More words: Food & Dining

咀嚼jǔjué · to chew可口kěkǒu · tasty狼吞虎咽lángtūnhǔyàn · to wolf down (food)烹饪pēngrèn · cooking清真qīngzhēn · halal涮火锅shuànhuǒguō · to eat hotpot素食sùshí · vegetarian food调料tiáoliào · seasoning

FAQs

品尝 (pǐncháng) means “to taste” or “to sample”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pǐncháng: pǐn with a 3rd tone, then cháng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 品尝 is written 品嚐. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pinchang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 品尝 from the suggestions. Typing pinchang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
品尝 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.