Grow up in Chinese
to grow up · HSK 5
成长
- 成 to become
- 长 long
孩子成长得很快。 Children grow up very fast.
Other ways to say grow up
More words with 成 or 长
How do you say grow up in Chinese?
Grow up in Chinese is 成长 (chéng zhǎng). You can also say 生长 (shēng zhǎng), 成人 (chéng rén).
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?
Our own 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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