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Mythic Mandarin

何尝 (hé cháng): meaning and stroke order

何尝 (hé cháng) means (rhetorical question) when?, how?, it's not that....

何尝

Simplified
何尝
Traditional
何嘗
Pinyin
hé cháng

Stroke order of 何尝

何

  • Hé surname He
  • hé what; how
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

尝

  • cháng to taste; to try (food); to experience
  • cháng to taste; to experience (variant of 嘗|尝[chang2])
  • cháng old variant of 嘗|尝[chang2]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 嘗

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 何尝

  1. hé cháng Traditional 何嘗
    • (rhetorical question) when?
    • how?
    • it's not that...

Radicals of the characters

何
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 可 on the right
尝
Radical 小 (Kangxi radical 42) · 9 strokes · 龸 on top, 云 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

何尝 in our stories

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  • 艄公却摇了摇头：“我在这里撑了四十年船，真正变成龙的鲤鱼，一条也没见过。可黄河里的鱼，何尝少过？”

    shāogōng què yáo le yáo tóu wǒ zài zhèli chēng le sìshí nián chuán zhēnzhèng biànchéng lóng de lǐyú yì tiáo yě méi jiàn guò kě Huáng Hé lǐ de yú hécháng shǎo guò

    The boatman shook his head. "I've poled a boat here for forty years and never seen a single carp really turn into a dragon. Yet when have there ever been fewer fish in the Yellow River?"

    From the story The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 何尝

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).