chéng, shèng
ride
Depicts a person (人) who has climbed up a tree (木).
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
Modernchéng
ride, ascend; avail oneself of; numerary adjunct for vehicles; to ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed
Chéng
surname Cheng
shèng
four horse military chariot (archaic); four (archaic); generic term for history books
chéng
old variant of 乘[chéng]
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to ride | ||
passenger | ||
to ride (in a vehicle) | ||
to drive | ||
to ride as a passenger |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.ləŋ | zying | chéng | ride (v.) |
*Cə.ləŋ-s | zyingH | shèng | vehicle |
*Cə.ləŋ-s | zyingH | shèng | team of four horses |
HSK level 5
Appears in 18.5328% of movies
1417th most common character in movies
1231st most common character in books
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+4E58 |
Shuowen | “乘，覆也。从入、桀。桀，黠也。軍法曰乘。，古文乘从几。” |
