chéng
assist
Depicts two hands (廾) rescuing a person (卩) trapped in a pit (凵).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Western Zhou (1045-771 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-təŋ | dzying | chéng | assist |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3340th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4E1E |
Shuowen | “丞,翊也。从廾,从卩,从山。山高,奉承之義。” |
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