成语 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 成語 On the HSK 5 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C1. chéngyǔ ㄔㄥˊ ㄩˇ 男 女 Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation idiom proverb saying adage Character by character 成(chéng)succeed 语(yǔ)dialect A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT