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成熟

chéng shú

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

成熟 (chéng shú) means "mature; ripe". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 成熟 means

1. mature; ripe
2. to mature; to ripen
3. Taiwan pr. chéng shóu

The characters in 成熟

• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 熟shúripe; mature; thoroughly cooked; done; familiar; acquainted

Example sentences

• 成熟的枇杷很容易从树上摘下来。
  Ripe medlars come away easily from the tree.
• 他留了胡子，为了让自己看起来更成熟。
  Tā liú le húzi, wèile ràng zìjǐ kànqǐlai gèng chéngshú.
  He grew a beard to look more mature.
• 你已经足够成熟了，应该懂得更多东西了。
  You are old enough to know better.
• 五成熟牛排见了七成熟牛排为什么不打招呼？两个都不熟。
  Wǔ chéngshú niúpái jiàn le qī chéngshú niúpái wèishénme bù dǎzhāohu? liǎng gè dōu bù shú.
  Why didn't the half-cooked steak say hello to the nearly-cooked steak when the two saw each other? They both weren't ready.
• 五成熟牛排见了七成熟牛排为什幺不打招呼？两个都不熟。
  Why didn't the half-cooked steak say hello to the nearly-cooked steak when the two saw each other? They both weren't ready.
• 三天之后，也就是下周一，时机就成熟了，到时教授和其帮派的骨干分子都会落入警方的手掌心。
  Sān tiān zhīhòu, yě jiù shì xià Zhōuyī, shíjī jiù chéngshú le, dàoshí jiàoshòu hé qí bāngpài de gǔgàn fènzǐ dōu huì luòrù jǐngfāng de shǒuzhǎngxīn.
  In three days—that is to say, on Monday next—matters will be ripe, and the Professor, with all the principal members of his gang, will be in the hands of the police.

Words containing 成熟

• 性成熟xìng chéng shúsexual maturity
• 生米做成熟饭shēng mǐ zuò chéng shú fànlit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed…
• 生米煮成熟饭shēng mǐ zhǔ chéng shú fànthe rice is cooked; what's done is done; it's too late to change anything now (idiom)

Where 成熟 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 shú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.