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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

成年 [chéngnián]
  1. 1. verb [指动植物] mature
  2. 2. verb [指人] grow up
  3. 3. adverb [指人] all year round

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

成年 [chéngnián]
  1. 1. noun grow up; come of age;majority
    成年人的思想会相对成熟些。
    再过一年我就成年了。
    法律规定未成年人不能结婚。
    尚未成年
    be under age; have not grown up yet
    成年
    full-grown trees
    成年
    grown-ups; adults
  2. 2. [verbal] all year
    解放军成年驻守在祖国的边疆。
    成年在外
    be away from home all year
  3. 3. adulthood; grown

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

成年 [chéngnián]
  1. 1. 人或高等动物、树木已经发育到成熟期
    他已成年
    成年
    成年
  2. 2. 整年
    成年在外奔波

Examples

古代女子成年很早, 及笄已算成年, 但其实才15岁。
Ancient girls came of age much earlier than we do today. They became adults at the time they began to bind their hair, but actually they were only 15 years old at that time. 及笄
尚未成年
be under age; have not grown up yet 成年
成年在外
be away from home all year 成年
你还差一岁就成年了。
再过一年我就成年了。 成年
解放军成年驻守在祖国的边疆。 成年
他刚年满十八,算是成年了吧。
他尚未成年不能喝酒。
她还没成年就在耳朵上穿了好几个耳洞。 耳朵
成年累月的劳累, 使他看起来十分苍老。
He looks aged, because he has worked hard for years and years. 成年累月

Collocations

成年
adult
成年
underage

Word Decomposition


[chéng]
+
[nián]

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