丞
chéng

assist, deputy

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approved by Prismcool · Jun 13, 2023, 05:08 PM · Reviewed by Peter Olson on Jul 28, 2023, 06:19 PM

Added etymology to this character based on explanation by Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters.

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Depicts two hands (廾) rescuing a person (卩) that had just fallen into a pit.

Components

廾
廾 Iconic component

Depicts two hands.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 廾 than it was in ancient scripts.
卩
卩 Iconic component

Depicts a person kneeling.

◎
◎ Iconic component

Depicts a pit.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Western Zhou 1045-771 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Qin 221-206 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzyingm-təŋ assist

說文解字

《說文》：“丞，翊也。从廾，从卩，从山。山高，奉承之義。”

Sources

Character origin
The Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)