成婚

Chinese

		finish; complete; accomplish finish; complete; accomplish; become; turn into; win; succeed; one tenth	to marry; marriage; wedding to marry; marriage; wedding; to take a wife
trad. (成婚)		成	婚
simp. #(成婚)		成	婚
alternative forms		成昏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chénghūn

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄏㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing⁴ fan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chénghūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄏㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chénghun
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng²-hun¹
    • Yale: chéng-hwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chernghuen
    • Palladius: чэнхунь (čɛnxunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ xu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing⁴ fan¹
    • Yale: sìhng fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing⁴ fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing⁴ fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ²¹ fɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyeng xwon

Rime
Character	成	婚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	是征切	呼昆切
Baxter	dzyeng	xwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇŋ/	/huən/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛŋ/	/huon/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiæŋ/	/xuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiajŋ/	/hwən/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛŋ/	/xuən/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛŋ/	/xuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛŋ/	/xuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chéng	hūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing4	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-[d]eŋ  m̥ˤu[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djeŋ  hmɯːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	成	婚
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chéng	hūn
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyeng ›	‹ xwon ›
Old Chinese	/*m-[d]eŋ/	/*m̥ˁu[n]/
English	to complete (tr. v)	marriage
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	成	婚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1417	5530
Phonetic component	成	昏
Rime group	耕	文
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	成	昏
Old Chinese	/*djeŋ/	/*hmɯːn/
Notes	說文丁聲，甲文戌下一豎， 或表戈已製成

Verb

成⫽婚 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. to get married

Synonyms

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• 作對 / 作对 (zuòduì, “to pair off in marriage”)
• 匹偶 (pǐ'ǒu) (literary)
• 匹配 (pǐpèi)
• 娶 (of a man)
• 婚嫁 (hūnjià)
• 婚配 (hūnpèi)
• 嫁 (jià) (of a woman)
• 嫁娶 (jiàqǔ)
• 安家 (ānjiā) (figurative)
• 完婚 (wánhūn)
• 完成 (wánchéng) (literary)
• 成家 (chéngjiā) (of a man)
• 成親 / 成亲 (chéngqīn)
• 桃夭 (táoyāo) (literary)
• 𤆬 (“to take a wife”) (Hokkien, Teochew, Leizhou Min)
• 𤆬新娘 (“to take a wife”) (Min Nan)
• 𤆬新婦 / 𤆬新妇 (“to take a wife”)
• 結合 / 结合 (jiéhé)
• 結婚 / 结婚 (jiéhūn)
• 聯結 / 联结 (liánjié)

 

Derived terms

• 奉子成婚 (fèngzǐchénghūn)