chéng
bear, carry
Pictograph of hands (廾, 手) carrying a person.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m-t]əŋ | dzying | chéng | receive |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 59.3945% of movies
722nd most common character in movies
639th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+627F |
Shuowen | “承,奉也,受也。从手,从卪,从。” |
Sources
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