大功告成

Chinese

		major achievement; great deed	to declare a completion
simp. and trad. (大功告成)		大功	告成

Etymology

From s:zh:漢書/卷099上

十萬眾並集，平作二旬，大功畢成。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

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十万众并集，平作二旬，大功毕成。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: The Book of Han, circa 1^st century CE

Shí wàn zhòng bìng jí, píng zuò èr xún, dà gōng bì chéng. [Pinyin]

Ten thousand people gathered, and in the span of twenty days, they finished building it.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàgōnggàochéng

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄍㄠˋ ㄔㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daai⁶ gung¹ gou³ sing⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tāi-kong-kò-sêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàgōnggàochéng
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄍㄠˋ ㄔㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàgonggàochéng
    • Wade–Giles: ta⁴-kung¹-kao⁴-chʻêng²
    • Yale: dà-gūng-gàu-chéng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dahgonggawcherng
    • Palladius: дагунгаочэн (dagungaočɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tä⁵¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵ kɑʊ̯⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daai⁶ gung¹ gou³ sing⁴
    • Yale: daaih gūng gou sìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daai⁶ gung¹ gou³ sing⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dai⁶ gung¹ gou³ xing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːi̯²² kʊŋ⁵⁵ kou̯³³ sɪŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tāi-kong-kò-sêng
    • Tâi-lô: tāi-kong-kò-sîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: daixkongkoirseeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tai²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ko²¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tai⁴¹⁻²² kɔŋ³³ ko⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ siɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tai²²⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² ko²¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tai³³⁻¹¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ ko¹¹⁻⁵³ siɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tai³³⁻²¹ kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ kɤ²¹⁻⁴¹ siɪŋ²³/

Idiom

大功告成

1. (of a project, work, etc.) to be accomplished; to be crowned with success