承兑
chéng​duì

accept

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)

兑 duì, ruì, duó exchange Simplified

Original meaning: joyous

Simplified form of 兌. Depicts words (八) coming out of a person's (人) mouth (口).

Components

八
八 IconicSimplified component
bā eight

Represents words coming out of the mouth.

口
口 Iconic component
kǒu, kou mouth
人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person

Component uses

Sound (5 of 7 verified)

说税脱阅锐悦説

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

蜕

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdwajHlˤot-s passage; opening
dwajHlˤot-s glad

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart

兌 exchange Traditional

Original meaning: joyous

Depicts words (八) coming out of a person's (人) mouth (口).

Components

八
八 Iconic component
bā eight

Represents words coming out of the mouth.

口
口 Iconic component
kǒu, kou mouth
人
人 Iconic component
rén, ren person

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 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 Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (4 of 7 verified)

說脫閱銳稅蛻悅

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

蛻

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

《說文》：“兌，說也。从儿，聲。”

Sources

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