HSK 3.0 Level 6 · Action

成 chéng “to become” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 成 means

  1. to become
  2. to succeed
  3. to finish
  4. to complete
  5. to accomplish
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to turn into
  • short name for Chengdu 成都

How to say 成

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

成 in a sentence

  1. 我的梦想是成为医生。

    Wǒ de mèngxiǎng shì chéngwéi yīshēng.

    My dream is to become a doctor.

    Sentence #813600 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我想成为你的朋友。

    Wǒ xiǎng chéngwéi nǐ de péngyou.

    I want to be your friend.

    Sentence #10489074 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他成了我最好的朋友。

    Tā chéng le wǒ zuì hǎo de péngyou.

    He became my best friend.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 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 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 成

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.

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

Words related to 成

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成人chéngrén · adult赞成zànchéng · to approve成立chénglì · to establish成长chéngzhǎng · to grow up

More words: Action & Change Verbs

见到jiàndào · to see变biàn · to change加jiā · to add进入jìnrù · to enter生shēng · to be born算suàn · to calculate改gǎi · to change求qiú · to seek

FAQs

成 (chéng) means “to become” or “to succeed”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 6 word.
Say it chéng: chéng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 成 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 成 from the suggestions. Typing cheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
成 is an HSK 3.0 Level 6 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older 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). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.