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成
Mandarin · pinyin chéng#
Meanings · chéng
- to succeed
- to finish
- to complete
- to accomplish
- to become
- to turn into
- to be all right
- OK!
- one tenth
Mandarin · pinyin Chéng#
Meanings · Chéng
- surname Cheng
- short name for Chengdu 成都 Chéng dū
Characters in this entry
- 成
- chéng · completed, finished, fixed
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Mandarin tones
2 · cheng2
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 18 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cing4 · seng4 · sing4
Cantonese word readings for 成. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to succeed; to accomplish; to achieve; to finish; to complete
- to succeed; to accomplish; to achieve; to finish; to complete — (verb complement) indicates successful completion or accomplishment of an action
- to help to achieve
- to become; to turn into
- to become; to turn into — (verb complement) into; as
- achievement; successful completion; positive result
- (in compounds) fully developed; fully grown
- fixed; ready-made
- to reach a certain level; to amount to
- to be all right
- capable
- one tenth; ten percent
- (literary) to make peace
- 73rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "completion" (𝍎)
- (Cantonese) entire
- (Cantonese, Hokkien) almost; nearly; up to
- (Cantonese) used as a verbal complement to indicate the completion of an action
- a surname
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