HSK 5 · Verbs

成长 chéngzhǎng “to grow up” in Chinese

Traditional 成長

What 成长 means

  1. to grow up
  2. to develop
  3. growth
  4. to mature
  5. to grow

How to say 成长

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale长zhǎng3rd tone, dipping

成长 in a sentence

  1. 孩子的成长快得令人吃惊。

    Háizi de chéngzhǎng kuài de lìngrén chījīng.

    Children grow up amazingly fast.

    Sentence #348616 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我在波士顿成长。

    Wǒ zài Bōshìdùn chéngzhǎng.

    I grew up in Boston.

    Sentence #8960535 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 高大的橡树是从一颗小小的橡子成长而来的。

    Gāodà de xiàngshù shì cóng yì kē xiǎoxiǎo de xiàngzǐ chéngzhǎng ér lái de.

    Great oaks from little acorns grow.

    Sentence #8727940 from Tatoeba

How 成长 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 长 (cháng) drawn as one shape
长zhǎngchief

长 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidSimplified from 長, drawn from a person with long hair: long (cháng), and to grow (zhǎng).

How to write 成长

成 6 strokes · 长 4 strokes

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

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

Words related to 成长

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构成gòuchéng · to constitute

Words with 长

长cháng · long校长xiàozhǎng · principal of school长城Chángchéng · the Great Wall长江Cháng Jiāng · Yangtze River长辈zhǎngbèi · elder延长yáncháng · to prolong长途chángtú · long distance生长shēngzhǎng · to grow漫长màncháng · very long擅长shàncháng · to be good at

More words: Common Verbs

吵chǎo · to quarrel抄chāo · to copy (by hand)趁chèn · to take advantage of (a time or chance)成立chénglì · to establish承担chéngdān · to take on (responsibility)承受chéngshòu · to bear吃亏chīkuī · to lose out持续chíxù · to continue

FAQs

成长 (chéngzhǎng) means “to grow up” or “to develop”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chéngzhǎng: chéng with a 2nd tone, then zhǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 成长 is written 成長. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chengzhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 成长 from the suggestions. Typing chengzhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
成长 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.