SAVOUR 品味
PERCEIVE FLAVOUR.
Old Chinese Criteria
Modern Chinese Criteria
TASTE
gustus refers to the impression something makes on one's sense of taste.
gustatus refers to the sense of taste that a person has.
TASTE/GUSTATION
libare refers to tasting something by putting a very small part of it into one's mouth.
gustare refers to the consciousness of what one tastes.
Words (3 items)
嘗 cháng OC: djaŋ MC: dʑi̯ɐŋ
嘗甞 Click here to add pinyin OC: MC: 10 Attributions
The current word for tasting something, trying to determine its flavour, is cháng 嘗. I have not found any near-synonyms so far.
- Word relations
- Relat: 食/FOOD
The general term for food is shí 食 and this includes food as well as drink and can refer generally to one's livelihood, also to staple foods as opposed to delicacies involving meat, such as kuài 膾 "minced meat, raw".
- Syntactic words
- nabacttasting
- viactto taste
- vt(oN)taste the contextually determinate object
- vtoNtaste
- vtoNimperativetaste!
- vtt(oN1.)+N2cause (someone N2) to try the taste of (something N1)
敏 mǐn OC: mrɯŋʔ MC: min 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- vihave a keen sense of taste (for food)
品 pǐn OC: phrɯmʔ MC: phim 0 Attributions
- Syntactic words
- vtoNtaste carefully and in a discriminating way