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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *成* | 成* | *成
surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都
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 form / to make up / to constitute
HSK 2
effort will undoubtedly lead to success (idiom)
to manufacture / to turn out (a product)
HSK 5
as if made by heaven
achieving nothing
to complete; to accomplish
HSK 2
integrated (as in integrated circuit)
nine-tenths / ninety percent
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
to do something at one go / to flow smoothly
won't do / unable to / (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
HSK 6
to form; to take shape
HSK 3
to cast in metal / (fig.) to forge / to fashion
(idiom) to have one's wishes come true; wish you the best!
HSK 7-9
to facilitate; to help bring about
HSK 7-9
to constitute / to form / to compose / to make up / to configure (computing)
HSK 4
Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese literature Nobel laureate
to reap where one has not sown (idiom)
lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom) / fig. when conditions are right, success will follow naturally
to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being / to be born with; to be blessed with
HSK 5
to exchange (sth) for (sth else) / to replace with / to convert into
HSK 7-9
(of wine, cheese, beef etc) to age; to mature
to change into / to turn into / to become
HSK 2
to cultivate / to raise / to form (a habit) / to acquire
HSK 4
to take a percentage (from a sum of money) / a commission; a cut
eighty percent / most probably / most likely
to divide (into) / to split a bonus / to break into / tenths / percentage allotment
HSK 5
lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom); fig. a great talent matures slowly / in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state / Rome wasn't built in a day
can be expected to be a success
to put sth together from component parts
successfully accomplished (project or goal) / to be highly successful
cut into
crash (course) / accelerated (process) / quick (fix) / instant (success) / to achieve in a short time
ready-made / readily available
HSK 7-9
mature / experienced / sophisticated
(idiom) to complement one another
HSK 7-9
harvest
to compose / to constitute / compound / synthesis / mixture / synthetic
HSK 5
disapproval / to disapprove
anxious for quick results (idiom); to demand instant success / impatient for result / impetuous
to organize / to put together / to edit
to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition) / to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible)
imperfect / incomplete
incomplete; unfinished
Li Zicheng (1605-1645), leader of peasant rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty
to establish / to build
HSK 3
to look favorably on sth / would be glad to see it happen
to reach (an agreement) / to accomplish
HSK 5
accomplished though young / lacking youthful vigor
to consider as; to take to be
HSK 6
completely
(idiom) to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere
HSK 7-9
(literary) to achieve success
to regard as
HSK 5
speech synthesis
to preserve the accomplishments of previous generations / to carry on the good work of one's predecessors
Heisei, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1989-2019) of emperor Akihito 明仁
to look favorably on sth / would be glad see it happen
Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) Great Leader of North Korea
to make (wine or spirits) / (fig.) to lead to (a bad result)
to cut up (into pieces) / to slice / to carve / to dice / to shred
to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
to be successful in one's studies / academic success
persevere and you will succeed (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way
to resemble nature itself / of the highest quality (idiom)
the year's harvest
thrombosis
a really determined person will find a solution (idiom); where there's a will, there's a way
a beautiful dream is hard to realize (idiom)
Li Jiancheng (589-626), eldest son of first Tang emperor Li Yuan 唐高祖李淵|唐高祖李渊, murdered by his brother 李世民 in the Xuanwu Gate coup 玄武門之變|玄武门之变 / Professor Li Jiancheng (1964-), geophysicist and specialist in satellite geodesy
nucleosynthesis
to shrink into
to complete a construction project
to translate into (Chinese, English etc)
Xue Fucheng (1838-1894), Qing official and progressive political theorist
the Almagest by Ptolemy
to cause / to render
to convert / to turn into (sth else) / to adapt (a story to another medium)
(geology) igneous; volcanic (rock)
please help achieve something (formal)
to make eyes / to exchange flirting glances with sb
to be successful in business / professional success
to charge (an entity) with (a task) / to assign (sb) the task of
to bring about; to create; to cause
HSK 3
Is it possible that ... ?
Emperor Wucheng of Qi, personal name 高湛 (537-568), reigned 561-565
photosynthesis
splendid and powerful (of story) / majestic / awesome
Wei Liucheng (1946-), fifth governor of Hainan
to approve / to endorse / (literary) to assist
HSK 4
to pretend
to form / to forge (alliances etc)
to grow up
to retain a portion (of profits etc)
to put together / to make up (a set) / to round up (a number to a convenient multiple) / resulting in...
to afford (a magnificent view etc) / to become (a prevailing fashion etc)
frequency synthesis

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