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.]

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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: dàgōnggàochéng
  - Zhuyin: ㄉㄚˋ ㄍㄨㄥㄍㄠˋ 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

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

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