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成为

chéng wéi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 成為

成为 (chéng wéi) means "to become; to turn into". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 成为 means

1. to become; to turn into

The characters in 成为

• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 为wéias (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as

Example sentences

• 您想成为什幺？
  What do you want to be?
• 你想成为什幺？
  What do you want to be?
• 我想成为记者。
  I want to be a journalist.
• 这即将成为历史。
  Zhè jíjiāng chéngwéi lìshǐ.
  This is going to become history.
• 她成为了邮递员。
  Tā chéngwéi le yóudìyuán.
  She has become a postwoman.
• 我希望成为医生。
  I wish to be a doctor.

Where 成为 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Growth, goals & success (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng wéi correctly.
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