HSK 5 · Family

成人 chéngrén “adult” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 成人 means

  1. adult
  2. to grow up
  3. to reach adulthood

How to say 成人

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale成chéng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale人rén2nd tone, rising

成人 in a sentence

  1. 只有成人可以看那种电影。

    Zhǐyǒu chéngrén kěyǐ kàn nà zhǒng diànyǐng.

    Only adults may watch that kind of film.

    Sentence #1749951 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 有时候成人表现得像儿童。

    Yǒushíhou chéngrén biǎoxiàn de xiàng értóng.

    Sometimes adults act like children.

    Sentence #5581726 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你儿子现在成人了。

    Nǐ érzi xiànzài chéngrén le.

    Your son has come of age.

    Sentence #846775 from Tatoeba

How 成人 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 成 (chéng) with each of its parts in a different colour
成chéngto succeed
  • 戈halberd · gē
  • 丁part of the character
The character 人 (rén) drawn as one shape
人rénperson; people

人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.

How to write 成人

成 6 strokes · 人 2 strokes

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

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

Words related to 成人

Words with 成

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

Words with 人

人rén · person家人jiārén · family member男人nánrén · man女人nǚrén · woman别人biéren · other people客人kèrén · guest有人yǒurén · someone人们rénmen · people大人dàren · adult老人lǎorén · old person

More words: People, Body & Health

皮肤pífū · skin生命shēngmìng · life痛tòng · painful宝贝bǎobèi · baby宠物chǒngwù · house pet胆小鬼dǎnxiǎoguǐ · coward对方duìfāng · the other person对象duìxiàng · target

FAQs

成人 (chéngrén) means “adult” or “to grow up”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chéngrén: chéng with a 2nd tone, then rén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 成人 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chengren with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 成人 from the suggestions. Typing chengren into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
成人 is an HSK 5 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.