成

See also: 戉

成 U+2F8B2, 成 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8B2 ← 懶 [U+2F8B1] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 戛 → [U+2F8B3]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

成 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹尸 (IHS), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊𠃌)

Derived characters

• 城 盛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 411, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11542
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1399, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6210

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		成

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 成
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (成) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
成	*djeŋ
城	*djeŋ
誠	*djeŋ
宬	*djeŋ
郕	*djeŋ
筬	*djeŋ
盛	*djeŋ, *djeŋs
珹	*djeŋ
晟	*djeŋs
墭	*djeŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djeŋ) : semantic 戊 + phonetic 丁 (OC *rteːŋ, *teːŋ).

Etymology

Cognate with 盛 (OC *djeŋ, “to hold with a receptacle”), 城 (OC *djeŋ, “city wall; city”), 盛 (OC *djeŋs, “abundant; flourishing”) (Schuessler, 2007).

According to Bodman (1980), cognate with Tibetan གྱང་ (gyang, “wall”), Tibetan འགེངས་པ ('gengs pa, “to fill”), Tibetan བཀང་ (bkang, “to fill to the brim”), Tibetan སྐོང་བ (skong ba, “to fulfill”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 成

1. to succeed
2. to finish; to complete
3. to accomplish
4. to become; to turn into

   衰變成鉛206／衰变成铅206  ―  shuāibiàn chéng qiān 206  ―  decay into ²⁰⁶Pb

   你搵工搵成點呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   你揾工揾成点呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   nei⁵ wan² gung¹ wan² sing⁴ dim² aa³? [Jyutping]

   How's the job hunting going?

   琴日個蛋糕整成點呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   琴日个蛋糕整成点呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   kam⁴ jat⁶ go³ daan⁶ gou¹ zing² sing⁴ dim² aa³? [Jyutping]

   How did the cake from yesterday go?

   • 即食麵係將麵壓成一塊。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     即食面系将面压成一块。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2010, Cantonese Wikipedia, 即食麪

     zik¹ sik⁶ min⁶ hai⁶ zoeng¹ min⁶ aat³ sing⁴ jat¹ faai³. [Jyutping]

     Instant noodles are noodles compressed into a slab.

   • 沙士（「士」讀成第二聲） [Cantonese, trad.]
     沙士（「士」读成第二声） [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2007, Cantonese Wikipedia, 沙士

     saa¹ si^6-2 (“si⁶” duk⁶ sing⁴ dai⁶ ji⁶ seng¹) [Jyutping]

     "沙士 (shāshì)" (with 士 (shì) read in/as the second tone)

5. to be all right
6. OK!
7. one tenth

   三成  ―  sān chéng  ―  three tenths (30%)

   五成半  ―  wǔ chéng bàn  ―  5.5 tenths (55%)

   八成九  ―  bā chéng jiǔ  ―  8.9 tenths (89%)

8. 73rd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "completion" (𝍎)
9. (Cantonese) entire

   成塊肉／成块肉 [Cantonese]  ―  seng⁴ faai³ juk⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  entire piece of meat

   成隻狗噉／成只狗噉 [Cantonese]  ―  seng⁴ zek³ gau² gam² [Jyutping]  ―  entirely like a dog

   成件事 [Cantonese]  ―  seng⁴ gin⁶ si⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  the entire matter

10. (Cantonese) almost; nearly; up to

    高咗成四寸 [Cantonese]  ―  gou¹ zo² seng⁴ sei³ cyun³ [Jyutping]  ―  grew almost four inches

    成一點鐘仲唔返屋企 [Cantonese, trad.]
    成一点钟仲唔返屋企 [Cantonese, simp.]

    From: Kaifang Cidian

    seng⁴ jat¹ dim² zung¹ zung⁶ m⁴ faan¹ uk¹ kei² [Jyutping]

    nearly 1 o'clock, yet they won't return home

11. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

成

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to become
2. to do something

Readings

• Go-on: じょう (jō, Jōyō ^†)^{←じやう (zyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: なす (nasu, 成す, Jōyō); なる (naru, 成る, Jōyō)
• Nanori: あき (aki); あきら (akira); しげ (shige); そん (son); たえ (tae); なお (nao); なり (nari); なる (naru); のり (nori); ひら (hira); まさ (masa); よし (yoshi); り (ri)

Compounds

Compounds

• 成立(せいりつ) (seiritsu)
• 成程(なるほど) (naruhodo)
• 成(なり)田(た) (Narita)

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Korean

Hanja

成 • (seong) (hangeul 성, McCune–Reischauer sŏng, Yale seng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 成 (thành, thình)

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References

• Nôm Foundation