chéng

Traditional: 成

HSK 3
#587 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to become; to succeed; (result complement) into, successfully

Stroke order

Stroke order for 成

Examples

He became a doctor.

bīng

Water can turn into ice.

This plan did not succeed.

Things finally worked out.

He finally became a doctor.

成 (chéng) means to become, to turn into, or to succeed. As a standalone verb it means to become (成为医生, become a doctor). As a result complement attached to other verbs it means to become or into (变成 biàn chéng, to transform into; 做成 zuò chéng, to make into; 说成 shuō chéng, to describe as). It also appears in compounds: 成功 (chénggōng, to succeed), 成为 (chéngwéi, to become), 完成 (wánchéng, to complete).

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 成.

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This word is part of lesson 12.