DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

事業有成

简事业有成 · 繁事業有成

Mandarin · pinyin shì yè yǒu chéng

to be successful in business
professional success

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

事: shì · affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
業: Look up this written character
有: yǒu · have, own, possess; exist
成: chéng · completed, finished, fixed
业: yè · profession, business; GB radical 111

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–4–3–2 · shi4 ye4 you3 cheng2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

4character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

事業有成 · find source passages ↗ · 事业有成 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗