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成

成

See also: 戉

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

成 (radical 62 戈+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹尸 (IHS), four-corner 53200, composition ⿵戊𠃌)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 411, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11542
  • Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1399, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6210

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 成

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 成
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (成) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
成 *djeŋ
城 *djeŋ
誠 *djeŋ
宬 *djeŋ
郕 *djeŋ
筬 *djeŋ
盛 *djeŋ, *djeŋs
珹 *djeŋ
晟 *djeŋs
墭 *djeŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djeŋ) : semantic 戊 + phonetic 丁 ‎(OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 成
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰəŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰəŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰən²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰən³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰen²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰən²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zen²¹³/
Wenzhou /zeŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕiɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂən¹³/
Xiangtan /ɖ͡ʐən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /sɑŋ⁴⁵/ 現～
/t͡sʰɑŋ²⁴/ 七八～
Hakka Meixian /sən¹¹/ ～功
/saŋ¹¹/ 唔～
Taoyuan /ʃen¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /seŋ²¹/
/sɛŋ²¹/
Nanning /seŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /siŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /siŋ³⁵/
/t͡siã³⁵/ ～人
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /siaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰeiŋ²¹/
/iaŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /seŋ⁵⁵/
/siã⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /seŋ³¹/
/t͡sia³¹/
Rime
Character 成
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 是征切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑiajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiɛŋ/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭɛŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chéng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 成 成
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chéng chéng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyeng › ‹ dzyeng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]eŋ/ /*m-[d]eŋ/
English to become (v.i.) to complete (tr. v)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 成
Reading # 1/1
No. 1417
Phonetic
component		 成
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 成
Old
Chinese		 /*djeŋ/
Notes 說文丁聲，甲文戌下一豎，或表戈已製成

Definitions

成

  1. to succeed
  2. to finish; to complete
  3. to accomplish
  4. to become; to turn into
    即食麵係將麵壓成一塊。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    即食面系将面压成一块。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    From: 2010, Cantonese Wikipedia, 即食麪
    Zik1 sik6 min6 hai6 zoeng1 min6 aat3sing4 jat1 faai3. [Jyutping]
    Instant noodles are noodles compressed into a slab.
    沙士（「士」讀成第二聲） [Cantonese, trad.]
    沙士（“士”读成第二声） [Cantonese, simp.]
    From: 2007, Cantonese Wikipedia, 沙士
    saa1 si6-2 ("si6" duk6sing4 dai6 ji6 seng1) [Jyutping]
    "沙士" (with 士 read in/as the second tone)
  5. to be all right
  6. OK!
  7. one tenth
    三成  ―  sān chéng  ―  three tenths (30%)
    五成半  ―  wǔ chéng bàn  ―  5.5 tenths (55%)
    八成九  ―  bā chéng jiǔ  ―  8.9 tenths (89%)
  8. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

成

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to become
  2. to do something

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

成 • ‎(seong) (hangeul 성, McCune-Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

成 (thành, thình)

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