It became his breakout work.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
成名作
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 成名作 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 成名作 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It became his breakout work.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 成名作.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 成名作.
Directly before
- 的成名作1
Directly after
- 成名作了2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 成名作
What does 成名作 mean in Chinese?
成名作 (chéngmíngzuò) means seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame.
How do you pronounce 成名作?
成名作 is pronounced chéngmíngzuò.
Is 成名作 an HSK word?
成名作 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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