to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once

= + + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is cooking some aloe vera (⺌) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). As he lifts the lid (冖) to try (尝) the aloe, a cloud (云) of steam fills the area, making everything smell like aloe.
to taste; to experience (variant of 嘗|尝[chang2])

= + + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is cooking some aloe vera (⺌) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). As he lifts the lid (冖) to try (尝) the aloe, a cloud (云) of steam fills the area, making everything smell like aloe.
old variant of 嘗|尝[chang2]

= + + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) is cooking some aloe vera (⺌) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). As he lifts the lid (冖) to try (尝) the aloe, a cloud (云) of steam fills the area, making everything smell like aloe.

尝 character breakdown

(classical) to say
"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.
small / tiny / few / young

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a small daisy. 小 looks like the stem 亅 of the flower is pushing aside the earth 八 as it grows out of the seed in the ground.

Xi Shi (xi) is decorating her hair with lots of small (小) daisies (mnemonic symbol for 小) in the aorta's living room (ao3). She wants to have lots of daisies in the future as well, so she plants new daisies. She found that the perfect substrate for planting daisies is made by crushing eight-balls (八) with a crow bar (亅).
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
cloud / CL:朵[duo3]

= + : Yu the Great (yu) had a little accident in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). She blew up her capacitor (二), and now there's smoke (云) everywhere. To be able to breathe, she puts on her fake nose (厶).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: ⺌ looks a bit like an aloe vera plant. Marie Curie planted aloe vera plants in the aorta's living room.

Characters with 尝 as component

to repay / to compensate for / to recompense / to fulfill (hopes etc)

= + : Charlie Chaplin (ch) made a very nice dish in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2), but Rosa Luxemburg (亻) messed it all up by adding too many spices. To compensate (偿) for it she has to cook it all again, with Charlie Chaplin warily tasting (尝) the food from time to time.
Bagridae (catfish family)

Words with 尝

to try / to attempt / CL:次[ci4]
to try; to attempt / CL:次[ci4]
to taste a small amount / to sample
(rhetorical question) when? / how? / it's not that...
not ever / not necessarily
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Gou Jian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4]), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge
lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge
to enjoy fully / to experience to the full over a long period
lit. to stop after taking just a sip (idiom); fig. to gain only a superficial knowledge of sth and then stop
to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)
to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety) / to suck up to sb / to kiss ass
to experience one's full share of sorrows (idiom)
to taste (fresh food or a delicacy) / to try sth new
Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink) / (fig.) to dabble in; to flirt with (a topic)

Sentences with 尝

dài
ǎn
lǎo
su̅n
cháng
cháng