HSK 4 · Verbs

养成 yǎngchéng “to cultivate” in Chinese

Traditional 養成

What 养成 means

  1. to cultivate
  2. to raise
  3. to form (a habit)
  4. to acquire

How to say 养成

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale养yǎng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale成chéng2nd tone, rising

养成 in a sentence

  1. 好习惯是从小养成的。

    Hǎo xíguàn shì cóngxiǎo yǎngchéng de.

    Good habits are formed in childhood.

    Sentence #332909 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他养成了熬夜的习惯。

    Tā yǎngchéng le áoyè de xíguàn.

    He’s got into the habit of staying up late.

    Sentence #1516177 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 一旦养成了坏习惯，就很难改回来了。

    Yídàn yǎngchéng le huài xíguàn, jiù hěn nán gǎi huílai le.

    Once you’ve formed a bad habit, it’s hard to break.

    Sentence #385601 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 养成 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 养 (yǎng) drawn as one shape
养yǎngto raise

养 is a single shape of 9 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

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 养成

养 9 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.

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

Words related to 养成

Words with 养

养yǎng · to raise (animals)营养yíngyǎng · nutrition培养péiyǎng · to cultivate抚养fǔyǎng · to raise (a child)保养bǎoyǎng · to take care of (one’s health)教养jiàoyǎng · upbringing饲养sìyǎng · to raise修养xiūyǎng · self-cultivation

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: Common Verbs

行xíng · OK醒xǐng · to wake up兴奋xīngfèn · excited演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)引起yǐnqǐ · to give rise to赢yíng · to beat预习yùxí · to prepare a lesson约会yuēhuì · appointment

FAQs

养成 (yǎngchéng) means “to cultivate” or “to raise”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yǎngchéng: yǎng with a 3rd 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.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 养成 is written 養成. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yangcheng with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 养成 from the suggestions. Typing yangcheng into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
养成 is an HSK 4 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.