What 甞 means
甞 is a variant form of 嘗, the character for taste. 嘗 also means trying, experiencing, and sometimes “once.”
The 嘗 family appears in Western Zhou and Warring States writing and later script forms; that history does not date this exact spelling.
Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, links 嘗 to 旨 (“good flavor”) and 尚 as its sound element. Classical dictionaries also record an ancestral harvest rite.
Historical or specialist spelling.
Read a source’s 甞 through 嘗 before treating it as another word.
Who writes 甞
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Questions people ask
1Why does 甞 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 甞
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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