As a Hunaness I could not distinguish chen from cheng, now I found out the inner link of accomplish/success with cheng, I passed this test even I lectured about this topic ten times, what a shame :)! I guess a great number of Chinese can not say it right for chen-cheng, ben-beng... not to say WHY.
成长 connected with G and other letters, there are 7G including USA,Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Canada, with a close letter with g inside.
Many letter g are in Chinese, an old and backward language, compare to English. Is this related to the character of Chinese people? its long history of feudalism? its more tight relationship between them? Does it symbolized by the Great Wall? It is an enigma worth to be pried...
G is not a perfect letter though, ...By the way Guan is a name the world is familiar with, the Michele Kwan, and the red faced Guan in Asia. For beauty as well as comedian, like Gong Li vs. Ge You,...
Let's focus on my finding---it is great to be honest with you.
At last pay my homage to our monitor/banzhu 成长!