成 chéng

1. chéng verb to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to succeed; to perfect
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: For example, 君子去仁，惡乎成名？ 'If a superior man [junzi] abandon virtue, how can he fulfill the requirements of that name?' (Lunyu 4:5, trans. by Legge 1861; CCD 1 '成' 1; Guoyu '成' v 1; Kroll 2015 '成' 1, p. 48; Mathews 1931 '成', p. 48; Unihan '成'; XHZD '成' 1)
2. chéng measure word one tenth
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD 2 '成'; Guoyu '成' n 1; XHZD '成' 9)
3. chéng verb to become; to turn into
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 成为; for example, 把猫说成虎 'to describe a cat [to become] as a tiger' [to exaggerate] (CCD 1 '成' 3; Guoyu '成' v 2; Suyu, p. 15; XHZD '成' 3)
4. chéng verb to grow up; to ripen; to mature
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 生长 (CCD 1 '成' 5; Guoyu '成' v 4; XHZD '成' 2)
5. chéng verb to set up; to establish; to develop; to form
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '成' 3, p. 48)
6. chéng noun a full measure of
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '成' n 3; Kroll 2015 '成' 1b, p. 48)
7. chéng verb whole
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 完整 (Guoyu '成' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '成' 2, p. 48; Mathews 1931 '成', p. 49)
8. chéng adjective set; established
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD 1 '成' 6; Guoyu '成' adj 2; XHZD '成' 8)
9. chéng adjective to reache a certain degree; to amount to
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 达到 (CCD 1 '成' 7; Guoyu '成' v 3; Kroll 2015 '成' 5, p. 48; XHZD '成' 7)
10. chéng adjective to reconcile
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '成' 4, p. 48)
11. chéng adverb alright; OK
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In spoken Chinese, in the sense of 可以 or 行 (CCD 1 '成' 8; Guoyu '成' v 5; XHZD '成' 5)
12. chéng measure word an area of ten square miles
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '成' n 2; Kroll 2015 '成' 6, p. 49)
13. chéng verb to resmble; to be similar to
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '成' 7, p. 49)
14. chéng adjective composed of
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 成分 ingredient (Guoyu '成' adj 3)
15. chéng noun a result; a harvest; an achievement
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 成果 or 成就 (CCD 1 '成' 4; XHZD '成' 4)
16. chéng adjective capable; able; accomplished
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (CCD 1 '成' 9; Kroll 2015 '成' 1c, p. 48; XHZD '成' 6)
17. chéng verb to help somebody achieve something
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 成全 (CCD 1 '成' 2)
18. chéng proper noun Cheng
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (CCD 1 '成' 10; Guoyu '成' n 4)

Contained in

• 边际成本(邊際成本) marginal cost
• 成品油 refined oil
• 合成类固醇(合成類固醇) anabolic steroids
• 成形 to take shape; shaping; forming
• 植物化学成分(植物化學成分) phytochemical
• 火成碎屑 pyroclastic
• 必不可少组成(必不可少組成) absolute necessity; sine qua non
• 自成一家 to have a style of one's own
• 成城 to construct a rampart
• 木已成舟 what is done cannot be undone
• 失败是成功之母(失敗是成功之母) Failure is the mother of success.
• 累成狗 to be dog-tired
• 成天 all day long; all the time
• 成对(成對) to form a pair
• 成全 to help somebody accomplish his aim; to help somebody succeed ; to complete; to make whole; to round off
• 偷鸡不成蚀把米(偷雞不成蝕把米) to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it; to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off
• 不成体统(不成體統) not according with decorum; scandalous; bad form; unacceptable behavior
• 分成 to divide; to break into parts
• 成位 to establish a position
• 成群结队(成群結隊) making up a group, forming a troupe; in large numbers; as a large crowd
• 有成 to succeed; successful
• 成婚 to get married
• 成家立室 to get married
• 抚养成人(撫養成人) to bring up (a child)
• 成绩(成績) achievement; performance records; grades
• 集成 integrated
• 成功 success ; to succeed ; to acknowledge; to promise
• 可望有成 can be expected to be a success
• 铸成(鑄成) to cast in metal; (fig.) to forge; to fashion
• 放射生成物 radiogenic material
• 成千成万(成千成萬) by the thousands and tens of thousands; untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
• 点铁成金(點鐵成金) to touch base matter and turn it to gold; to turn crude writing into a literary gem
• 深成岩 plutonic rock; abyssal rock
• 坐观成败(坐觀成敗) to sit and await success or failure; to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides
• 铸成大错(鑄成大錯) to make a serious mistake
• 责成(責成) give somebody a task
• 一成不变(一成不變) nothing much changes; always the same; stuck in a rut
• 仆僮成群(僕僮成群) a group of boy servants
• 功败垂成(功敗垂成) to fail within sight of success; last-minute failure/to fall at the last hurdle/snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
• 成份 ingredient; element
• 修炼成仙(修煉成仙) to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal; practice makes perfect
• 散斑成像 speckle imaging
• 历史成本(歷史成本) historic cost
• 长成(長成) to grow up ; to ripen; to mature
• 成案 a case precedent ; an already processed case

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成报 、 张成泽 、 荣成市 、 合成语音 、 武成 、 魏文成帝

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• 卷三百〇九 列傳第一百九十七 流賊 李自成 張獻忠 Volume 309 Biographies 197: Traitors - Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong History of Ming 明史 — count: 166
• 卷六十九　志第二十: 　禮樂三 Volume 69 Treatises 22: Rites and Music 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 121
• 卷二百三十八 列傳第一百二十六 李成梁 麻貴 Volume 238 Biographies 126: Li Chengliang, Ma Gui History of Ming 明史 — count: 73
• 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 60
• 卷七十　　志第二十一: 　禮樂四 Volume 70 Treatises 23: Rites and Music 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 60
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 58
• Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 57
• 卷三十七 志第十三 曆七 Volume 37 Treatises 13: Calendar 7 History of Ming 明史 — count: 56
• 卷二百三十一 列傳第一百十九 顧憲成 顧允成 錢一本 于孔兼 史孟麟 薛敷教 安希范 劉元珍 葉茂才 Volume 231 Biographies 119: Gu Xiancheng, Gu Yuncheng, Qian Yiben, Yu Kongjian, Shi Menglin, Xue Fujiao, An Xifan, Liu Yuanzhen, Ye Maocai History of Ming 明史 — count: 53
• 卷三十八 志第十四 曆八 Volume 38 Treatises 14: Calendar 8 History of Ming 明史 — count: 50

Collocations

• 求成 (求成) 而求成焉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 8
• 成季 (成季) 成季使以君命命僖叔待于鍼巫氏 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 7
• 取成 (取成) 取成于宋而還 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 5
• 成子 (成子) 成子得政 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 4
• 楚成 (楚成) 楚成得臣帥師伐陳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
• 以求成 (以求成) 請王命以求成于齊 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 3
• 行成 (行成) 使子人九行成于晉 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
• 郤成 (郤成) 郤成子曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 3
• 用成 (用成) 百穀用成 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 洪範 Zhou Shu - Great Plan — count: 2
• 成子曰 (成子曰) 郤成子曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 2