U+5617 "嘗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5617 "嘗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that generally means "to taste" or "to try," and it can also convey the sense of "to experience" or "to have tested" something. In classical and modern usage, it appears in words related to tasting food or drink, as well as in metaphorical contexts such as "never before" or "have not yet experienced." The character is composed of radicals including the component for "mouth" or "speech" and elements indicating flavor or ceremony, reflecting its original association with the act of tasting offerings. As a CJK Unified Ideograph, it belongs to the set of characters shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where its simplified counterpart in Chinese is "尝."