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承
承
Translingual
Han character
承 (radical 64 手+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓弓手人 (NNQO), four-corner 17232)
References
- KangXi: page 419, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11852
- Dae Jaweon: page 766, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 54, character 3
- Unihan data for U+627F
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
承 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 承
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (丞) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 蒸 | *kljɯŋ |
| 烝 | *kljɯŋ, *kljɯŋs |
| 篜 | *klɯŋ |
| 脀 | *kljɯŋ |
| 拯 | *kljɯŋʔ |
| 氶 | *kljɯŋʔ |
| 承 | *ɡljɯŋ |
| 丞 | *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs |
| 巹 | *klɯnʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ
- Wade-Giles: ch'êng2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chengr
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: sing4, cing2
- Yale: sìhng, chíng
- Cantonese Pinyin: sing4, tsing2
- IPA (key): /sɪŋ²¹/, /t͡sʰɪŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sêng / sîn
- Tâi-lô: sîng / sîn
- Phofsit Daibuun: seeng, siin
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiɪŋ²⁴/, /ɕin²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiɪŋ²⁴/, /ɕin²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiɪŋ¹³/, /ɕin¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiɪŋ²⁴/, /ɕin²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiɪŋ²³/, /ɕin²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 承 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin |
/ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁴⁵/ /t͡sʰəŋ⁴⁵/ |
|
| Jinan | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /tʃʰəŋ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃n⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sʰən²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡sʰən³¹/ | |
| Guiyang |
/t͡sʰen²¹/ /sen²¹/ |
|
| Kunming | /ʈ͡ʂʰə̃³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʈ͡ʂʰən²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ʈ͡ʂʰən⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡sʰəŋ¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡sʰə̃ŋ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /zəŋ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /zən¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /d͡zen²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /zeŋ³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕʰiʌ̃⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕiɛ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʈ͡ʂən¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɖ͡ʐən¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang |
/sɨn⁴⁵/ ～不住 /t͡sʰɨn²⁴/ ～認 |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sən¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʃen¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /seŋ²¹/ |
| Nanning | /seŋ²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /siŋ²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/siŋ³⁵/ /sin³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /siŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sʰeiŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /seŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/teŋ³¹/ /tin³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 承 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 蒸 (133) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 署陵切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ʑɨŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ʑɨŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡ʑieŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡ʑiŋ/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʑiəŋ/ |
| Wang Li |
/ʑĭəŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʑi̯əŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
chéng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 承 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
chéng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzying › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[m-t]əŋ/ |
| English | receive |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 承 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1413 |
| Phonetic component |
丞 |
| Rime group |
蒸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
承 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡljɯŋ/ |
Definitions
承
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
- acquiesce
Readings
- Goon: じょう (jō)
- Kan’on: しょう (shō)
- Kun: うけたまわる (承る, uketamawaru), うけたまわり (承, 承り, uketamawari), うける (承ける, ukeru), ささげる (承げる, sasageru), とどめる (承める, todomeru), たすける (承ける, tasukeru), こらす (承らす, korasu), ついで (承で, tsuide), すくう (承う, sukuu)
- Nanori: つぐ (tsugu), こと (koto), すけ (suke), つぎ (tsugi), よし (yoshi)
Compounds
Usage notes
This may be the only kanji with a six-mora reading, of uketamawari. However, this reading is more often spelled with the final -ri spelled in kana (as 承り) to clarify and disambiguate the reading of the single kanji.
This kanji is also one of very few kanji with five-mora readings, and the only verb, namely 承る (uketamawaru, with the kanji comprising the five-mora uketamawa- part). Other kanji with five-mora readings are the nouns 志 (kokorozashi), 詔 / 勅 (mikotonori), and 宰 / 司 (mikotomochi). No kanji have a reading of more than six morae.
Korean
Hanja
承 • (seung, jeung) (hangeul 승, 증, revised seung, jeung, McCune-Reischauer sŭng, jŭng, Yale sung, jung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
承 (thừa)
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