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成本

chéng běn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

成本 (chéng běn) means "(manufacturing) cost". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 成本 means

1. (manufacturing, production etc) costs

The characters in 成本

• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this

Example sentences

• 怎么降低成本呢？
  How do you keep costs down?
• 他们正努力降低成本。
  They are trying to keep costs down.

Words containing 成本

• 加工成本jiā gōng chéng běnprocessing cost
• 机会成本jī huì chéng běnopportunity cost
• 生产成本shēng chǎn chéng běnproduction costs
• 正常成本zhèng cháng chéng běnnormal cost (accountancy)
• 总成本zǒng chéng běntotal costs
• 边际成本biān jì chéng běnmarginal cost
• 低成本dī chéng běnlow cost; inexpensive
• 平均成本法píng jūn chéng běn fǎ(finance) dollar cost averaging
• 历史成本lì shǐ chéng běnhistoric cost (accounting)
• 沉没成本chén mò chéng běnsunk cost (economics)

Where 成本 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chéng–chén (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng běn correctly.
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