成年
chéng​nián HSK7

adult

成年 chéng​nián
adult adjectivenoun
A person, animal, or plant that is fully grown or has reached maturity.

一个成年的科学家就是一个从未长大的孩子。

yī​ge chéng​nián de kē​xué​jiā jiù​shì yī​ge cóng​wèi zhǎng dà de hái​zi.

An adult scientist is a kid who never grew up.

to come of age verb
To grow to adulthood; to reach full maturity or the legal age of majority.

他们正走向成年。

tā​men zhèng zǒu​xiàng chéng​nián.

They’re moving towards adulthood.

all year round
Colloquially used to mean the entire year or year after year.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
5.40 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
8.72 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)