不打不成才

spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom)

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

dozen (loanword)

to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from

won't do / unable to / (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?

surname Cheng

to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth

to make sth of oneself / to become a person who is worthy of respect

ability / talent / sb of a certain type / a capable individual / then and only then / just now / (before an expression of quantity) only

(variant of 才[cai2]) just now / (before an expression of quantity) only