成名

Chinese

		finish; complete; accomplish finish; complete; accomplish; become; turn into; win; succeed; one tenth	name; fame; to describe name; fame; to describe; place
trad. (成名)		成	名
simp. ^#(成名)		成	名

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chéngmíng

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴ ming⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing² ming²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sêng-bêng / sêng-miâ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chéngmíng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chéngmíng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻêng²-ming²
  - Yale: chéng-míng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cherngming
  - Palladius: чэнмин (čɛnmin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sing⁴ ming⁴
  - Yale: sìhng mìhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ ming⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ ming⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sing² ming² [Phonetic: sing⁵ ming²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: síng-míng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ¹³⁻¹¹ miŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: sing² ming² [Phonetic: sing⁵ ming²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ²⁴⁻²¹ miŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sêng-bêng
  - Tâi-lô: sîng-bîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sengbeeng
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /siɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sêng-miâ
  - Tâi-lô: sîng-miâ
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sengmiaa
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ miã²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɪŋ²³⁻³³ miã²³/

Verb

成⫽名 (verb-object) (intransitive)

to achieve fame; to make one's name

Synonyms

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出名 (chūmíng)
揚名 / 扬名 (yángmíng)
蜚聲 / 蜚声 (fēishēng) (formal)
顯揚 / 显扬 (xiǎnyáng) (literary)

Derived terms

一夜成名 (yīyèchéngmíng)
一舉成名 / 一举成名 (yījǔchéngmíng)

References

“成名”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 37.