承付
chéng​fù

honor payment

承 chéng bear, carry

Pictograph of hands (廾, 手) carrying a person.

Components

卩
卩 Iconic component
jié person kneeling

Depicts a person being carried.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 卩 than it was in ancient scripts.
手
手 Iconic component
shǒu, shou hand
廾
廾 Iconic component
gǒng two hands
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 廾 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Warring States ~400 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 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
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzying[m-t]əŋ receive

說文解字

《說文》：“承，奉也，受也。从手，从卪，从。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

付 fù, fu pay, hand over

Depicts a hand (寸) giving payment to a person (亻).

Components

亻
亻 Iconic component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

寸
寸 Iconic component
cùn, cun (hand), inch

Depicts a hand.


Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
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
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (3 of 10 verified)

府附符咐驸苻鲋跗拊駙

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpjuHp(r)o-s give

說文解字

《說文》：“付，與也。从寸，持物對人。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)