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品尝

pǐn cháng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 品嚐

品尝 (pǐn cháng) means "to taste a small amount". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 品尝 means

1. to have a taste of; to sample

Other readings

品尝 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• pǐn chángvariant of {品尝|pǐn cháng}

The characters in 品尝

• 品pǐn(bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type…
• 尝chángto taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once

Example sentences

• 你在台湾品尝过火锅吗 ?
  Have you tried the hot pot in Taiwan?
• 新竹的贡丸和米粉非常有名，吸引不少游客品尝。
  Hsinchu's meatballs and rice noodles are very famous, attracting many tourists to taste them.
• 在上海一家酒吧开始售我最喜欢的啤酒，所以我趁这个机会好好品尝。
  Zài Shànghǎi yījiā jiǔbā kāishǐ shòu wǒ zuì xǐhuan de píjiǔ, suǒyǐ wǒ chèn zhège jīhuì hǎohǎo pǐncháng.
  A bar in Shanghai started selling my favorite beer, so I'll take the opportunity to taste some.
• 刚开始的时候你可能不会喜欢这个啤酒。这是需要多次品尝去习惯它的口味。
  Gāng kāishǐ de shíhou nǐ kěnéng bù huì xǐhuan zhège píjiǔ. Zhè shì xūyào duō cì pǐncháng qù xíguàn tā de kǒuwèi.
  You might not like this beer at first. It's an acquired taste.
• 2015 年 4 月 14 日，我步行前往列治文公共市场，先是爬上了外面的阶梯。市场内部宽敞的中庭式建筑，让我感觉彷佛置身于丛林之中。我当时已经有点饿了，便小跑到小吃摊「瓦船长」那里，点了一份面和一杯热茶。面里有鱿鱼、鱼和豆腐。我吃着吃着，一位穿着紫色 T 恤的英俊原住民男子从我身边走过。接着，一位身材魁梧、相貌英俊的犹太人也走了过来。几分钟后，我开始觉得口渴，于是在「QQ 珍珠奶茶与咖啡」买了一杯冰镇薄荷珍珠绿茶。我坐在阶梯旁慢慢品尝。附近坐着一家三口吃东西，男人是黑人，女人是东亚人，小孩是混血儿。我喝珍珠奶茶上瘾，于是在「花生家」又买了一杯。这次是冰镇青苹果珍珠绿茶，味道好极了。我搭扶梯下楼。去洗手间的路上，我注意到一个大水族箱，里面养着大概是体型巨大的阿拉斯加红帝王蟹，蟹腿上长满了藤壶。不知怎的，它们让我想起了外星生物。在书店里，我买了一本图文并茂的绿色植物学书籍，上面用的是汉字。一个月前我把它放在一个箱子上，现在还在那里。这本书 14 块钱。我搭扶梯上楼。我对珍珠奶茶还是有瘾，于是用剩下的零钱买了一杯冰荔枝珍珠绿茶。味道好极了，里面甚至还有白色的荔枝果肉。
  On the 14th of April of 2015, I walk to the Richmond Public Market, I first climbing the stairs outside. Inside, the wide atrium-like building is like a garden in a jungle surrounding, I imagine. Already quite hungry, I trot to Captain Wa, the food vendor, to get noodles with squid, fish, and tofu, as well as hot tea. As I eat, a handsome First Nations man in a purple T-shirt walks by. Then a handsome, stocky Jewish fellow walks by. A few minutes later, I begin to thirst, so I get a cold Mint Bubble Green Tea at the vendor QQ Bubble Tea and Coffee. I sit by the stairs to sip. A threesome family sits eating nearby, the man being black, the woman being Oriental, and the child being a hybrid. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I get another one, this time at Peanut's. It is a cold Green Apple Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious. I take the escalator down. On my way to the washroom, I notice a big aquarium full of probably giant red Alaskan king crabs with barnacles on their legs. They remind me of extraterrestrials, somehow. At the bookstore, I buy a heavily illustrated green botany book in sinograms. I left it on top of a box a month ago and it is still there. It is $14. I take the escalator up. Addicted to Bubble Tea, I spend my remaining coins on a cold Lychee Bubble Green Tea. It is delicious with even bits of white lychee flesh.

Where 品尝 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · pīn–pǐn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pǐn cháng correctly.
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