Cultivate in Chinese
to cultivate · HSK 4
养成
- 养 to raise
- 成 to become
他养成了早睡早起的习惯。 He developed the habit of going to bed early and getting up early.
Other ways to say cultivate
More words with 养 or 成
How do you say cultivate in Chinese?
Cultivate in Chinese is 养成 (yǎng chéng). You can also say 种植 (zhòng zhí), 培育 (péi yù), 修 (xiū).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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