Memory phrase for the character: 尝

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to taste (food), to try, already, ever, once

cháng

From top: small 小, cover 冖, cloud, to say 云 (They can be arranged in layers 二 and form vortices/eddies 厶: clouds.)

If the small (thing) on the cover tastes like a cloud, that's I want to try/taste.

小	small	A person with tight arms appears small.
冖	cover	This very similar radical 宀 is understood as a roof.
云	cloud, fog	They can be arranged in layers 二 and form vortices/eddies 厶: the clouds.

尝试	cháng shì	to try; to attempt
未尝	wèi cháng	not ever; not necessarily
何尝	hé cháng	(rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
卧薪尝胆	wò xīn cháng dǎn	lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge
浅尝辄止	qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ	to dabble and stop (idiom); to dip into; to attempt half-heartedly
浅尝辄止	qiǎn cháng zhé zhǐ

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