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

• 成例 a convention; a precedent
• 心想事成 to have one's wishes come true; wish you the best!
• 成百上千 many; by the hundreds and thousands
• 切成丝(切成絲) to grate; to shred (vegetable)
• 成群结队(成群結隊) making up a group, forming a troupe; in large numbers; as a large crowd
• 当成(當成) to consider as; to take to be
• 必不可少组成(必不可少組成) absolute necessity; sine qua non
• 成灾(成災) disastrous; to turn into a disaster
• 成熟分裂 meiosis (in sexual reproduction)
• 制成品 manufactured goods; finished product
• 一口吃不成胖子 you cannot get fat with only one mouthful; learn to walk before you run
• 集成 integrated
• 迄未成功 in the end, still not accomplished
• 成军(成軍) to form an army; to set up (team, group, band, organization etc); to found; opening (ceremony); to commission
• 构成(構成) to constitute; to form; to compose
• 成就 accomplishment; success; achievement ; to succeed; to help someone succeed; to achieve
• 着手成春(著手成春) set out and it becomes spring; to effect a miracle cure (of medical operation); to bring back the dead
• 成绩(成績) achievement; performance records; grades
• 成了 to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do!
• 达成协议(達成協議) to reach agreement
• 修炼成仙(修煉成仙) to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal; practice makes perfect
• 合成数(合成數) composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization)
• 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
• 成法 an established regulation
• 百事无成(百事無成) to have accomplished nothing
• 成败得失(成敗得失) lit. success and failure, the gains and losses (idiom); fig. to weigh up various factors
• 平方成反比 proportional to inverse square
• 成年 to grow to adulthood; to be fully grown ; the whole year
• 成竹在胸 imagine a complete image of bamboo [before drawing it]
• 弄巧成拙 to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
• 合成器 synthesizer
• 随机数生成器(隨機數生成器) Random number generator
• 成文法 statute
• 难不成(難不成) Is it possible that ... ?
• 聚沙成塔 grains of same amass together to make a tower
• 合成乐器(合成樂器) synthesizer
• 功能性磁共振成像 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• 弄假成真 pretense that turns into reality; to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true
• 形成层(形成層) vascular cambium (layer of tissue responsible for growth inside wood)
• 有机合成(有機合成) organic composition
• 成千成万(成千成萬) by the thousands and tens of thousands; untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
• 血流成河 rivers of blood ; bloodbath
• 成年者 adult
• 习以成性(習以成性) deeply ingrained; steeped in
• 半成品 semi-manufactured goods; semi-finished articles; semi-finished products
• 合成橡胶(合成橡膠) synthetic rubber
• 点金成铁(點金成鐵) to transform gold into base metal; to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it
• 神成为人(神成為人) God became man

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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
• 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
• 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — 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

• 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
• 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: 5
• 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
• 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: 3
• 成孝敬 (成孝敬) 成孝敬 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 序 Preface — count: 2
• 成命 (成命) 以成命也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 2
• 曰成 (曰成) 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
• 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
• 成康 (成康) 不顯成康 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 周頌‧清廟之什‧執競 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Qing Miao - Zhi Jing — count: 2