HSK 3 · Verbs

完成 wánchéng “to complete” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 完成 means

  1. to complete
  2. accomplish
  3. to fulfil

How to say 完成

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale完wán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale成chéng2nd tone, rising

完成 in a sentence

  1. 她提前一小时完成了工作。

    Tā tíqián yì xiǎoshí wánchéng le gōngzuò.

    She finished her work an hour early.

    Sentence #785821 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 您可以在三天内完成吗？

    Nín kěyǐ zài sān tiān nèi wánchéng ma?

    Can you finish it within three days?

    Sentence #9964307 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我差不多完成了。

    Wǒ chàbuduō wánchéng le.

    I’m almost done.

    Sentence #333787 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 完成 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 完 (wán) with each of its parts in a different colour
完wánto finish
  • 宀roof · miánMeaning part
  • 元first · yuánSound part

宀 hints at the meaning (roof); 元 (yuán) hints at the sound. Compare it with wán.

Memory aidPicture a house 宀 finished from the first 元 brick to the last: whole, finished.

The character 成 (chéng) with each of its parts in a different colour
成chéngto succeed
  • 戈halberd · gē
  • 丁part of the character

How to write 完成

完 7 strokes · 成 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

完成 (wánchéng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 完成 (wánchéng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 完成

Words with 完

完wán · to finish完全wánquán · complete完美wánměi · perfect完善wánshàn · complete完整wánzhěng · complete完毕wánbì · to finish完备wánbèi · complete

Words with 成

成绩chéngjì · achievement变成biànchéng · to turn into成功chénggōng · success成为chéngwéi · to become养成yǎngchéng · to cultivate成人chéngrén · adult赞成zànchéng · to approve成立chénglì · to establish成长chéngzhǎng · to grow up构成gòuchéng · to constitute

More words: Thinking & Talking

难过nánguò · be grieved认为rènwéi · believe认真rènzhēn · serious同意tóngyì · agree相信xiāngxìn · to believe小心xiǎoxīn · be careful需要xūyào · to need选择xuǎnzé · select

FAQs

完成 (wánchéng) means “to complete” or “accomplish”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it wánchéng: wán with a 2nd tone, then chéng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 完成 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wancheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 完成 from the suggestions. Typing wancheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
完成 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.