修成正果
xiū chéng zhèng guǒ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
In Buddhism, to reach enlightenment through long practice; more broadly, to see long effort rewarded at last. Today it is often said of a couple who marry after a long courtship.
Trong đạo Phật: tu hành lâu năm mà đắc đạo. Nghĩa rộng: bền bỉ bỏ công rồi cuối cùng cũng có kết quả tốt đẹp; nay hay nói về đôi yêu nhau lâu năm rồi nên vợ nên chồng.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “tu thành chính quả” = 修成正果 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tu thành chính quả” (tu-thanh-chinh-qua). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “修成正果” mean?
In Buddhism, to reach enlightenment through long practice; more broadly, to see long effort rewarded at last. Today it is often said of a couple who marry after a long courtship. Literally: cultivate and attain the right fruit
Is “修成正果” formal or informal?
修成正果 is generally neutral.