| 一举成功 | yī jǔ chéng gōng | success at one go; to succeed at the first attempt |
| 三五成群 | sān wǔ chéng qún | forming groups of three or squads of five (idiom); people stand around in small clumps |
| 三人成虎 | sān rén chéng hǔ | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact |
三个臭皮匠，
合成一个诸葛亮 | sān gè chòu pí jiang ,
hé chéng yī gè Zhū gě Liàng | lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom |
不以规矩，
不能成方圆 | bù yǐ guī ju ,
bù néng chéng fāng yuán | without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules |
| 不成功 | bù chéng gōng | unsuccessful |
| 不成文法 | bù chéng wén fǎ | unwritten law |
| 不成样子 | bù chéng yàng zi | shapeless; deformed; ruined; beyond recognition; (of a person) reduced to a shadow |
| 不成熟 | bù chéng shú | unripe; immature |
| 不成体统 | bù chéng tǐ tǒng | not according with decorum (idiom); scandalous; bad form; unacceptable behavior |
| 不打不成才 | bù dǎ bù chéng cái | spare the rod and spoil the child (idiom) |
| 不打不成相识 | bù dǎ bù chéng xiāng shí | don't fight, won't make friends (idiom); an exchange of blows may lead to friendship |
| 不空成就佛 | Bù kōng chéng jiù fó | Amoghasiddhi Buddha |
| 不赞成 | bù zàn chéng | disapproval; disapprove |
| 丘成桐 | Qiū Chéng tóng | Shing-Tung Yau (1949-), Chinese-American mathematician, Fields medalist in 1982 |
| 中山成彬 | Zhōng shān Chéng bīn | NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943-), right-wing Japanese cabinet minister and prominent denier of Japanese war crimes |
| 中成药 | zhōng chéng yào | prepared prescription (Chinese medicine) |
| 久病成良医 | jiǔ bìng chéng liáng yī | long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom) |
| 久病成医 | jiǔ bìng chéng yī | (proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor |
| 低成本 | dī chéng běn | low cost; inexpensive |
| 使成 | shǐ chéng | to cause; to render |
| 使成一体 | shǐ chéng yī tǐ | to unify |
| 修炼成仙 | xiū liàn chéng xiān | lit. to practice austerities to become a Daoist immortal; practice makes perfect |
| 偏正式合成词 | piān zhèng shì hé chéng cí | modified compound word |
| 偷鸡不成蚀把米 | tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ | trying to steal a chicken, but only lost a handful of rice (common expression); having high aims, but a total failure |
| 光能合成 | guāng néng hé chéng | photosynthesis |
| 出口成章 | chū kǒu chéng zhāng | to speak like a printed book; quick and clever talking; the gift of the gab |
| 分成 | fēn chéng | to divide (into); to split a bonus; to break into; tenths; percentage allotment |
| 切成 | qiē chéng | to cut up (into pieces); to slice; to carve; to dice; to shred |
| 切成块 | qiē chéng kuài | to cut into cubes; to dice (vegetable) |
| 切成丝 | qiē chéng sī | to grate; to shred (vegetable) |
| 剪成 | jiǎn chéng | cut into |
| 功到自然成 | gōng dào zì rán chéng | effort will undoubtedly lead to success (idiom) |
| 功成不居 | gōng chéng bù jū | not to claim personal credit for achievement (idiom) |
| 功成名就 | gōng chéng míng jiù | to win success and recognition (idiom) |
| 功败垂成 | gōng bài chuí chéng | to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure; to fall at the last hurdle; snatching defeat from the jaws of victory |
| 功能磁共振成像术 | gōng néng cí gòng zhèn chéng xiàng shù | functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) |
| 加工成本 | jiā gōng chéng běn | processing cost |
| 势成骑虎 | shì chéng qí hǔ | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway |
| 化学成分 | huà xué chéng fèn | chemical composition |
| 十成九稳 | shí chéng jiǔ wěn | to be 90 per cent sure (idiom) |
| 反目成仇 | fǎn mù chéng chóu | to become enemies (idiom); to fall out with sb |
只要功夫深，
铁杵磨成针 | zhǐ yào gōng fu shēn ,
tiě chǔ mó chéng zhēn | If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle.; cf idiom 磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom); fig. to persevere in a difficult task; to study diligently |
| 合成代谢 | hé chéng dài xiè | anabolism (biology); constructive metabolism (using energy to make proteins etc); assimilation |
| 合成器 | hé chéng qì | synthesizer |
| 合成数 | hé chéng shù | composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization) |
| 合成法 | hé chéng fǎ | (chemical) synthesis |
| 合成物 | hé chéng wù | compound; composite; cocktail |
| 合成石油 | hé chéng shí yóu | synthetic oil |
| 合成词 | hé chéng cí | compound word |
