(chéng shú) - mature, ripe, fully developed in Mandarin
chéngshúTraditional: 成熟
Translation
mature, ripe, fully developed
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Word origin
A compound of 成 (chéng, to complete, to come about) and 熟 (shú, cooked, ripe, familiar), whose character carries 灬, the fire radical, along the bottom.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 成 (chéng, to complete) + 熟 (shú, ripe, cooked)
Stroke order
成
熟
Examples
。
These mangoes are not ripe yet.
。
He is far more mature than other children his age.
。
The idea is not fully worked out yet.
项。
The technology is well established now.
，。
After what happened she grew up all at once.
成熟 (chéng shú) covers three English words at once. Fruit that is 成熟 is ripe. A person who is 成熟 is grown-up in judgement rather than in years. A plan, a market or a piece of technology that is 成熟 is fully developed and no longer experimental.
It also works as a change of state with 了: 芒果成熟了, the mangoes have ripened; 她成熟了, she has grown up. Its opposite depends on the sense, and the useful one is 不成熟, which of an idea means half-baked and of a person means immature, exactly as in English.
The trap is 熟 on its own, which is a different word and not a shortening. 熟 alone means cooked (肉熟了, the meat is done) or familiar (我跟他很熟, I know him well). A learner who trims 成熟 down to 熟 to save a syllable ends up telling people they are well cooked.
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This word is taught in chapter 31, lesson 6: 成熟 and 9 more words.