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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
accomplishment / success / achievement / CL: 個|个 / to achieve (a result) / to create / to bring about
HSK 3
result / achievement / gain / profit / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
achievement / performance records / grades / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 2
(manufacturing, production etc) costs
HSK 5
to reach adulthood / an adult
HSK 4
to become; to turn into
HSK 2
to establish / to set up / to be tenable / to hold water
HSK 3
mature; ripe / to mature; to ripen / Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
HSK 3
to succeed / success / successful; fruitful
HSK 3
to mature / to grow / growth
HSK 3
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, ,
HSK 5
effect / result
HSK 5
member
HSK 3
composition; ingredient; element; component / one's social status
HSK 6
to complete a contract / to reach a deal
HSK 5
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom) / fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
HSK 7-9
finished goods / a finished product
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *成* | 成* | *成
surname Cheng / short name for Chengdu 成都
adult person
to help sb accomplish his aim / to help sb succeed / to complete / to make whole / to round off
Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder and ruler of the Mongol Empire
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect
HSK 7-9
twofold / manyfold / exponentially
to grow to adulthood / fully grown; adult / the whole year
HSK 7-9
(TCM) set prescription (i.e. medicine specifically prescribed for a definite condition)
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
Narita Airport (Tokyo)
ready-made clothes
adult products; sex-related goods (condoms, lubricants, sex toys etc)
Chengdu, sub-provincial city and capital of Sichuan Province 四川省
to settle down and get married (of a man) / to become a recognized expert
HSK 7-9
(idiom) making up a group; forming a troupe; in large numbers; as a large crowd
HSK 7-9
to vary inversely / inversely proportional to
(coll.) all day long / all the time
HSK 7-9
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
to form an image / imaging
hundreds / a large number / lit. by the hundreds and thousands
Jackie Chan (1954-), kungfu film and Cantopop star
to succeed in life / to become somebody
to make sense
sense of accomplishment
cause / factor / cause of formation
lit. to form an army / to set up (team, group, band, organization etc) / to found / opening (ceremony) / to commission (arms system, naval vessel) / to graduate from an apprenticeship
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
refined oil
historical or literary anecdote that gives rise to a saying
lit. success and failure, the gains and losses (idiom) / fig. to weigh up various factors
to become a Buddha / to attain enlightenment
thousands
to become shaped / to become formed
HSK 7-9
in groups / large numbers of / grouping
Chenggong or Chengkung town in Taitung County 臺東縣|台东县, southeast Taiwan
growth rate
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect / (of a tree) to grow to full size / to become useful for timber
lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers / innumerable / thousands upon thousands
to judge people based on their success or failure (idiom)
all day long / the whole day / the whole time
to accomplish the objective / to succeed
(of a large number of things) to form an expanse / to cover an area
survival rate / rate of success
What a scandal! / Whatever next?
relative purity of silver or gold / purity in carat weight / quality / fineness
Chenghua district of Chengdu city 成都市, Sichuan
preconceived idea / bias / prejudice
to be a problem / problematic / questionable
HSK 7-9
to embark on a journey
erhua form of 成方
to survive
to be done / to be ready / that's enough! / that will do!
Narita (Japanese surname and place name)
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军 / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
to die for a good cause
an established precedent / a convention
to become a common practice; to become a trend
National Cheng Kung University (abbr. for 成功大學|成功大学)
established rules / the beaten track
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), a public research university in Tainan, Taiwan
forming a complete set / complementing one another
to take shape / shaping / forming
to get married
bone formation / osteogenesis
imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
to get married (idiom)
to form pairs / to be in couples
unable to accomplish anything but liable to spoil everything (idiom) / unable to do anything right / never make, but always mar
member country
to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect
disastrous / to turn into a disaster
(of an animal or tree etc) to become a spirit or goblin / (fig.) to be amazingly skillful, smart or evil etc
to form a pair
won't get far; unlikely to be successful
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)
composition / make-up / ingredient / element / component / one's social status / same as 成分
Sing Pao Daily News
to become second nature / by nature

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