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尝试

cháng shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 嘗試

尝试 (cháng shì) means "to try, attempt". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

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

Where 尝试 is taught

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

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