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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
to complete; to accomplish
HSK 2
to form / to make up / to constitute
HSK 2
to become; to turn into
HSK 2
to change into / to turn into / to become
HSK 2
achievement / performance records / grades / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 2
to succeed / success / successful; fruitful
HSK 3
to mature / to grow / growth
HSK 3
to form; to take shape
HSK 3
result / achievement / gain / profit / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
member
HSK 3
to establish / to set up / to be tenable / to hold water
HSK 3
accomplishment / success / achievement / CL: 個|个 / to achieve (a result) / to create / to bring about
HSK 3
mature; ripe / to mature; to ripen / Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
HSK 3
to bring about; to create; to cause
HSK 3
to establish / to build
HSK 3
to constitute / to form / to compose / to make up / to configure (computing)
HSK 4
to reach adulthood / an adult
HSK 4
to cultivate / to raise / to form (a habit) / to acquire
HSK 4
to approve / to endorse / (literary) to assist
HSK 4
to divide (into) / to split a bonus / to break into / tenths / percentage allotment
HSK 5
to complete a contract / to reach a deal
HSK 5
to manufacture / to turn out (a product)
HSK 5
effect / result
HSK 5
to regard as
HSK 5
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, ,
HSK 5
to compose / to constitute / compound / synthesis / mixture / synthetic
HSK 5
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
HSK 5
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
to reach (an agreement) / to accomplish
HSK 5
to consider as; to take to be
HSK 6
won't do / unable to / (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
HSK 6
finished goods / a finished product
HSK 6
composition; ingredient; element; component / one's social status
HSK 6
to facilitate; to help bring about
HSK 7-9
ready-made / readily available
HSK 7-9
minor (i.e. person under 18)
HSK 7-9
(idiom) immutable; impervious to change; set in stone
HSK 7-9
to grow to adulthood / fully grown; adult / the whole year
HSK 7-9
(idiom) making up a group; forming a troupe; in large numbers; as a large crowd
HSK 7-9
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
HSK 7-9
to become shaped / to become formed
HSK 7-9
(coll.) all day long / all the time
HSK 7-9
to be a problem / problematic / questionable
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to become enraged over a perceived humiliation
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to complement one another
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere
HSK 7-9
logical / only to be expected / rational and clearly structured (of text)
HSK 7-9
unity of will is an impregnable stronghold (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to have a well-thought-out plan in mind
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of one's speech) eloquent / articulate
HSK 7-9
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
to exchange (sth) for (sth else) / to replace with / to convert into
HSK 7-9
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to have one's wishes come true; wish you the best!
HSK 7-9
synthesizer (musical instrument)
successfully accomplished (project or goal) / to be highly successful
sense of achievement
integrated circuit
adult / fully formed / developed
all day long / the whole day / the whole time
underage
patent medicine / medicine already made up
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
composition / make-up / ingredient / element / component / one's social status / same as 成分
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *成* | 成* | *成
surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都
to have a style of one's own
effort will undoubtedly lead to success (idiom)
to be lined up (like a chain of islands, a string of pearls etc) / to form a cluster (like a bunch of grapes) / to come one after the other (like a series of sighs)
to bring up (a child)
Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
to win success and recognition (idiom)
(proverb) one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest
Chenghua district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
to form a pair
a self-made genius
National Cheng Kung University (abbr. for 成功大學|成功大学)
hatred caused by love (idiom) / to grow to hate someone because of unrequited love for that person
to make one's name; to become famous
Chengdu, sub-provincial city and capital of Sichuan Province 四川省
lit. called a king if successful, called a bandit if defeated (idiom) / fig. losers are always in the wrong
addictiveness
to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition) / to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible)
(literary) to achieve success
compound word
(Christianity) to be sanctified; to become holy
in groups of three or four (idiom)
to make up (out of components)
Chengdu 成都 and Chongqing 重慶|重庆
Narita (Japanese surname and place name)
(Internet slang) to be dog-tired
nucleation
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), a public research university in Tainan, Taiwan
to help sb accomplish his aim / to help sb succeed / to complete / to make whole / to round off
(geology) igneous; volcanic (rock)
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
game where the last word of one idiom 成語|成语 is the first of the next
school report or transcript

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