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胸有成竹

xiōng yǒu chéng zhú

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

胸有成竹 (xiōng yǒu chéng zhú) means "(idiom) to have a well thought out plan in mind". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 胸有成竹 means

1. idiomto have a well-thought-out plan in mind

The characters in 胸有成竹

• 胸xiōngchest; bosom; heart
• 有yǒuto have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 竹zhú(bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118

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