成 chéng
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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) -
chéng
measure word
one tenth
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD 2 '成'; Guoyu '成' n 1; XHZD '成' 9) -
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) -
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) -
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) -
chéng
noun
a full measure of
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '成' n 3; Kroll 2015 '成' 1b, p. 48) -
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) -
chéng
adjective
set; established
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD 1 '成' 6; Guoyu '成' adj 2; XHZD '成' 8) -
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) -
chéng
adjective
to reconcile
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '成' 4, p. 48) -
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) -
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) -
chéng
verb
to resmble; to be similar to
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '成' 7, p. 49) -
chéng
adjective
composed of
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 成分 ingredient (Guoyu '成' adj 3) -
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) -
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) -
chéng
verb
to help somebody achieve something
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 成全 (CCD 1 '成' 2) -
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
- 未成 a minor ; incomplete; unachieved; failed; abortive
- 蔚然成风(蔚然成風) to have become common practice; to become a general trend
- 亡成功 not successful
- 成敬和教育机构(成敬和教育機構) Cheng Jing He Education Institute
- 成名作 work that makes one's name
- 不成 unsuccessful ; will not do; will not work ; don't tell me ...
- 成不了气候(成不了氣候) won't get far; unlikely to be successful
- 成夜 all night long
- 无心插柳柳成阴(無心插柳柳成陰) idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you
- 成片 covering a wide area
- 少女露笑脸,婚事半成全(少女露笑臉,婚事半成全) When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done.
- 成败利钝(成敗利鈍) succeed or fail, sharp or blunt; advantages and disadvantages; success and failure
- 舍己成人(捨己成人) to give up one's own interests to help other people
- 建成 to establish; to build
- 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
- 反目成仇 to become enemies; to fall out with sb
- 慌成一团(慌成一團) (of a group of people) to run about helplessly
- 习惯成自然(習慣成自然) habit becomes nature; get used to something and it seems inevitable; second nature
- 成千上万(成千上萬) untold numbers; innumerable
- 成反比 to vary inversely; inversely proportional to
- 成人 adult ; someone with merit and ability ; to become someone worthy of respect ; to become an adult
- 完成 to complete; to accomplish ; to complete on schedule ; to aid; to save ; to consummate a marriage
- 浑然天成(渾然天成) to resemble nature itself; of the highest quality
- 性成熟 sexual maturity
- 脑成像技术(腦成像技術) brain imaging technique
- 成婚 to get married
- 造成 to create; to cause
- 一失足成千古恨 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow
- 久病成良医(久病成良醫) long illness makes the patient into a good doctor
- 不打不成器 spare the rod and spoil the child
- 集成电路(集成電路) an integrated circuit
- 成器 to make something of oneself; to become a person who is worthy of respect
- 点金成铁(點金成鐵) to transform gold into base metal; to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it
- 没有规矩,不成方圆(沒有規矩,不成方圓) without rules, nothing can be done; one must follow some rules
- 眼成穿 to watch in anticipation
- 绿树成荫(綠樹成蔭) (of an area) to have trees with shade-giving foliage; (of a road) to be tree-lined
- 失败是成功之母(失敗是成功之母) Failure is the mother of success.
- 一举成功(一舉成功) success at one go; to succeed at the first attempt
- 放射生成物 radiogenic material
- 成仁取义(成仁取義) to sacrifice oneself for a righteous cause
- 血栓形成 thrombosis
- 成了器 to be able to do something
Also contained in
成祖 、 容成氏 、 成田机场 、 修成正果 、 偏正式合成词 、 明成皇后 、 熊成基 、 相符极成 、 中山成彬
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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
- 成师 (成師) 命之曰成師 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 桓公 Lord Huan — count: 2
- 伯成 (伯成) 召伯成之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧魚藻之什‧黍苗 Minor odes of the kingdom - Yu Zao Zhi Shen - Shu Miao — count: 2
- 成孝敬 (成孝敬) 成孝敬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 2