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HSK
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  *成* | 成* | *成
to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth
HSK 2
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
to ride / to mount / to make use of / to avail oneself of / to take advantage of / to multiply (math.) / Buddhist sect or creed
HSK 5
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  *城* | 城* | *城
city walls / city / town / CL: , , 個|个
HSK 3
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  *稱* | 稱* | *稱
to weigh / to state / to name / name / appellation / to praise
HSK 2
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  *乘* | 乘* | *乘
surname Cheng
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  *成* | 成* | *成
surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都
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  *撐* | 撐* | *撐
to support / to prop up / to push or move with a pole / to maintain / to open or unfurl / to fill to bursting point / brace / stay / support
HSK 6
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  *盛* | 盛* | *盛
to hold / to contain / to ladle / to pick up with a utensil
HSK 7-9
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  *橙* | 橙* | *橙
orange tree / orange (color)
"Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey"
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  *秤* | 秤* | *秤
steelyard balance; Roman balance / CL: 臺|台
HSK 7-9
King Cheng of Zhou (1055-1021 BC), reigned 1042-1021 BC as the 2nd king of Western Zhou 西周, son of King Wu of Zhou 周武王
Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), author (or compiler) of novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
National Cheng Kung University (abbr. for 成功大學|成功大学)
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  *騁* | 騁* | *騁
to hasten / to run / to open up / to gallop
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  *澄* | 澄* | *澄
surname Cheng
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  *澄* | 澄* | *澄
clear / limpid / to clarify / to purify
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), a public research university in Tainan, Taiwan
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  *誠* | 誠* | *誠
(bound form) sincere; authentic / (literary) really; truly
Cheng Yu (141-220), advisor to General Cao Cao 曹操 during the Three Kingdoms era
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  *樘* | 樘* | *樘
a pillar
School of Principle / Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹)
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  *鋮* | 鋮* | *鋮
(used in people's names)
Cheng Yanqiu (1904-1958), famous Beijing opera star, second only to 梅蘭芳|梅兰芳
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  *承* | 承* | *承
surname Cheng / Cheng (c. 2000 BC), third of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 descended from Shennong 神農|神农 Farmer God
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  *承* | 承* | *承
to bear / to carry / to hold / to continue / to undertake / to take charge / owing to / due to / to receive
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  *程* | 程* | *程
surname Cheng
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  *程* | 程* | *程
rule / order / regulations / formula / journey / procedure / sequence
Cheng District or Chengqu, a district of Shanwei City 汕尾市, Guangdong / Cheng District or Chengqu, a district of Yangquan City 陽泉市|阳泉市, Shanxi / Cheng District or Chengqu, a district of Jincheng City 晉城市|晋城市, Shanxi
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  *晿* | 晿* | *晿
(used in names)
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  *珵* | 珵* | *珵
fine jade / jade ornament
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  *蟶* | 蟶* | *蟶
mussel / razor clam / Solecurtus constricta
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  *呈* | 呈* | *呈
to present to a superior / memorial / petition / to present (a certain appearance) / to assume (a shape) / to be (a certain color)
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  *酲* | 酲* | *酲
(literary) inebriated / hungover
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  *埕* | 埕* | *埕
earthen jar
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  *丞* | 丞* | *丞
deputy
Carrie Lam (1957-), chief executive of Hong Kong 2017-, full name 林鄭月娥|林郑月娥 Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor
Lin Fong-cheng (1940-), Taiwanese politician
Yusho disease or Yu-cheng disease, mass poisoning caused by rice bran oil in northern Kyushu, Japan (1968), and in Taiwan (1979)
Chiang Chung-cheng, adopted name of Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
Cheng San (precinct in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore) / Cheng Shan GRC, formerly (until the 1997 elections) a group representation constituency (electoral division) in Singapore
Cheng Hao (1032-1085), Song neo-Confucian scholar
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  *裎* | 裎* | *裎
to take off one's clothes / naked
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  *裎* | 裎* | *裎
an ancient type of clothing
Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms (304-347)
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  *琤* | 琤* | *琤
tinkling of gems
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  *赬* | 赬* | *赬
deep red
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  *宬* | 宬* | *宬
(literary) archive room; library (esp. in the imperial palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties)
Liu Yuan (c. 251–310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋, founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成漢|成汉 (304–347)
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  *噌* | 噌* | *噌
sound of bells etc
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  *懲* | 懲* | *懲
to punish / to reprimand / to warn
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  *晟* | 晟* | *晟
surname Cheng
Cheng'an, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市, Hebei
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  *珹* | 珹* | *珹
a kind of jade / a kind of pearl
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  *庱* | 庱* | *庱
surname Cheng / ancient area of modern-day Danyang City, Jiangsu Province
Cheng Yaojin (589-665), aka 程知節|程知节, Chinese general of the Tang dynasty
Carol "Dodo" Cheng Yu-Ling (1957-), Hong Kong actress and TV host
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  *塍* | 塍* | *塍
raised path between fields
lit. the snow piles up at Cheng Yi's door (idiom) / fig. deep reverence for one's master
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  *䞓* | 䞓* | *䞓
old variant of 赬|赪
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  *鐺* | 鐺* | *鐺
frying pan / griddle
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  *悜* | 悜* | *悜
obscure
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  *逞* | 逞* | *逞
to show off / to flaunt / to carry out or succeed in a scheme / to indulge / to give free rein to
Cheng Miao, a jailer-turned-prisoner in the Qin dynasty who created the clerical style of Chinese calligraphy
lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying) / fig. sb shows up unexpectedly and disrupts the plan / sb whose presence is regarded as irksome
Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar
Mei Cheng (-c. 140 BC), Han dynasty poet
Ekin Cheng (1967-), Hong Kong actor and pop singer
Cheng Bushi, Han dynasty general
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  *橕* | 橕* | *橕
a prop / a shore
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  *檉* | 檉* | *檉
tamarisk
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  *郕* | 郕* | *郕
surname Cheng / Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BCE) vassal state
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  *稱* | 稱* | *稱
old variant of
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  *偁* | 偁* | *偁
variant of 稱|称
Cheng County or Chengxian, a county in Longnan City 隴南市|陇南市, Gansu
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  *棖* | 棖* | *棖
door post
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  *椉* | 椉* | *椉
old variant of
HSK 5
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  *瞠* | 瞠* | *瞠
stare at sth beyond reach
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  *秤* | 秤* | *秤
to weigh (variant of 稱|称)
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  *澂* | 澂* | *澂
variant of
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  *爯* | 爯* | *爯
old variant of 稱|称
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  *頳* | 頳* | *頳
old variant of 赬|赪
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  *堘* | 堘* | *堘
variant of
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  *牚* | 牚* | *牚
variant of 撐|撑
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  *罉* | 罉* | *罉
(dialect) cooking pot / variant of 鐺|铛
variant of 騁|骋


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