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成立

chéng lì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

成立 (chéng lì) means "to establish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 成立 means

1. to establish
2. to set up
3. to be tenable
4. to hold water

The characters in 成立

• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 立lìto stand; to set up; to establish

Example sentences

• 有些情况之下，这条规则不能成立。
  Yǒuxiē qíngkuàng zhīxià, zhè tiáoguī zé bù néng chénglì.
  There are some cases where the rule does not hold good.
• 为了调查物价，成立了一个委员会。
  Wèile diàochá wùjià, chénglì le yī gè wěiyuánhuì.
  A committee was constituted to investigate prices.
• 我们现在能肯定地说，这个假设是成立的。
  Wǒmen xiànzài néng kěndìng de shuō, zhège jiǎshè shì chénglì de.
  We can now say definitely that this hypothesis holds water.
• 他成立了自己的公司的时候还不到二十岁。
  Tā chénglì le zìjǐ de gōngsī de shíhou hái bù dào èrshí suì.
  He was still in his teens when he founded a company.
• 此公式对所有实部大于零的复数 z 均成立。
  This formula is valid for all complex numbers z with a real part greater than zero.
• 政府官员与业界人士也开始意识到「甲烷捕捉计画」的潜力。美国农业部正在密西西比州及其他数个州资助农场内的实验场址。部分大型禽肉加工业者正在成立再生能源部门，以供应饲料厂所需电力。此外，一家燃料公司正在评估是否可以用鸡只排放的甲烷取代天然气，并注入管线，用来为部分沿线发电机提供动力。
  Officials from government and industry are also starting to recognize the potential of the Methane Capture Project. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding experimental on-farm sites in Mississippi and several other states. Some large poultry processors are launching renewable energy divisions to power their feed mills. And a fuel company is investigating the possibility of pumping chicken-waste methane instead of natural gas through its pipeline, and to use it to power some of the generators along the way.

Sounds the same

Read chéng lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 成例an established precedent; a convention

Where 成立 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Ethics, Law & Social Harmony (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng lì correctly.
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