成
to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth
成 character breakdown
male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl
丁
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一
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亅
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Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.
Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.
used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]
surname Ge
dagger-axe / abbr. for 戈瑞[ge1 rui4] / (Tw) abbr. for 戈雷[ge1 lei2]
fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / fifth in order / letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / penta
ten thousand / a great number
万
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丆
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㇆
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Willy Walrus needs to dig up the floor in the anthill's bathroom, but he is tired of doing so manually with a plough. To make his life easier, he sets up a wind wheel for electricity, connects a neuron to the wind wheel and the plough to transmit the electricity and uses his new DIY electric plough to dig much faster.
Characters with 成 as component
city walls / city / town / CL:座[zuo4],道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
sincere / authentic / really / truly
诚
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成
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讠
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) wants to visit engine, but he's held up at the entrance ((e)ng2). If he wants to enter he has to pass a lie detector test first. He readily takes the test and answers all questions very honestly (诚), and the progress bar mounted on top of an advertising column (讠) shows steady progress. At the very end however the progress bar is stuck at 99% (成) and won't progress regardless of how honest (诚) Charlie answers his questions.
surname Sheng
to hold / to contain / to ladle / to pick up with a utensil
flourishing / vigorous / magnificent / extensively
surname Cheng
brightness of sun / splendor / also pr. [cheng2]
surname Cheng / Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) vassal state
(used in people's names)
library stack / storage
a kind of jade / a kind of pearl
Words with 成
to have achieved nothing / to be a total failure / to get nowhere
(idiom) to have one's words turn out to be (tragically) prophetic
a sudden shower towards the end of summer brings an abrupt arrival of autumn (idiom)
lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. learn to walk before you run