1 mature

2 ripe

3 to mature

4 to ripen

5 Taiwan pr. [chéng shóu]

1 cooked (of food)

2 ripe (of fruit)

3 mature (of seeds)

4 familiar

5 skilled

6 done

7 also pr. [shóu]

1 to be familiar with

2 to know well

1 to promote ripening of fruit

1 precocious

2 early-maturing

1 unfamiliar at first, but well accustomed soon enough (idiom)

1 lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently

2 to know sth inside out

3 to know sth by heart

1 with familiarity you learn the trick (idiom); practice makes perfect

1 idiom

1 when the melon is ripe, it falls (idiom); problems sort themselves out in the fullness of time