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速成

Mandarin · pinyin sù chéng

crash (course)
accelerated (process)
quick (fix)
instant (success)
to achieve in a short time

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速: sù · quick, prompt, speedy
成: chéng · completed, finished, fixed

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4–2 · su4 cheng2

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cuk1 sing4

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verb

(now chiefly attributive) to achieve (a goal) in a short period of time

noun

(～輸入法) Simplified Cangjie; Quick (a variant of Cangjie where the user enters only the first and last elements of a character's Cangjie code)

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