成
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to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
Formation & memory
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Words with 成
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自成一家 | to have a style of one's own | |
| 天文学大成 | the Almagest by Ptolemy | |
| 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | |
| 成安县 | Cheng'an, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 成大 | National Cheng Kung University (abbr. for 成功大學|成功大学[Cheng2 gong1 Da4 xue2]) | |
| 一事无成 | (idiom) to have achieved nothing; to be a total failure; to get nowhere | |
| 化学成分 | chemical composition | |
| 成人 | to reach adulthood; an adult | |
| 成县 | Cheng County or Chengxian, a county in Longnan City 隴南市|陇南市[Long3 nan2 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 不成文 | unwritten (rule) | |
| 文成县 | Wencheng, a county in Wenzhou City 溫州市|温州市[Wen1 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 不成文法 | unwritten law | |
| 成心 | intentionally; deliberately; on purpose | |
| 不打不成器 | spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom) | |
| 生成 | to generate; to produce; to form; to be formed; to come into being; to be born with; to be… | |
| 无成 | achieving nothing | |
| 天成 | as if made by heaven | |
| 成天 | (coll.) all day long; all the time | |
| 成家 | to settle down and get married (of a man); to become a recognized expert | |
| 成性 | to become second nature; by nature |
Sound family
These characters use 成 as their sound component — compare how they read.