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尝试

cháng shì

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 嘗試

What 尝试 means

1. to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)

The characters in 尝试

• 尝chángto taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
• 试shìto test; to try; experiment

Example sentences

• 我需要尝试。
  I need to try.
• 他努力地尝试。
  He tries hard.
• 请稍后再尝试。
  Please try again later.
• 我曾尝试忘记。
  I tried forgetting.
• 这种尝试很荒谬。
  It's nonsense to try that.
• 别尝试转变话题。
  Don't try to change the subject.

Words starting with 尝试

• 尝试错误cháng shì cuò wùto proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes

Sounds the same

Read cháng shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 长逝to depart this life; to be no more