承

Stroke order

承 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓弓手人 (NNQO), four-corner 1723₂, composition ⿲㇇⿻了三⿺乀丿(GJKV) or ⿲㇇⿻了三⿱丿乀(HT))

• 𠉹, 𰇻, 𢮋, 㴍, 𰗸, 𤗓, 𦜎, 𫎷, 𰸧, 𢬫, 𢬬, 𰔄, 𢁇, 𦫠, 𨛾, 𦲶

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 419, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11852
• Dae Jaweon: page 766, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 54, character 3
• Unihan data for U+627F

Historical forms of the character 承
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 卩 (“kneeling person”) + 廾 (“both hands”) – to hold; to carry. Compare 丞. In the seal script, an additional hand 手 was added.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tjaŋ (“upper part; rise; raise”) (STEDT).

承

1. to receive; to accept; to inherit
2. to undertake; to contract (a job)
3. to continue; to carry on; to succeed
4. to be obliged; to be indebted to
5. a surname

承

1. ^† Alternative form of 拯 (zhěng)

   • 見一丈夫游之，以為有苦而欲死者也。使弟子並流而承之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     见一丈夫游之，以为有苦而欲死者也。使弟子并流而承之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Liezi, 1^st – 5^th century CE

     Jiàn yī zhàngfū yóu zhī, yǐwèi yǒu kǔ ér yù sǐ zhě yě. Shǐ dìzǐ bìng liú ér zhěng zhī.

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. acquiesce

• Go-on: じょう (jō)^{←じよう (zyou, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō)^{←しよう (syou, historical)}
• Kun: うけたまわる (uketamawaru, 承る, Jōyō)^{←うけたまはる (uketamafaru, 承る, historical)}、うけたまわり (uketamawari, 承)^{←うけたまはり (uketamafari, 承, historical)}、うけたまわり (uketamawari, 承り)^{←うけたまはり (uketamafari, 承り, historical)}、うける (ukeru, 承ける)、ささげる (sasageru, 承げる)、とどめる (todomeru, 承める)、たすける (tasukeru, 承ける)、こらす (korasu, 承らす)、ついで (tsuide, 承で)、すくう (sukuu, 承う)^{←すくふ (sukufu, 承ふ, historical)}
• Nanori: うけ (uke)、こと (koto)、すけ (suke)、つぎ (tsugi)、つぐ (tsugu)、よし (yoshi)

This may be the only kanji with a six-mora reading, of uketamawari. However, this reading is more often spelled with the final -ri spelled in kana (as 承り; okurigana) to clarify and disambiguate the reading of the single kanji.

This kanji is also one of very few kanji with five-mora readings, and the only verb, namely 承る (uketamawaru, with the kanji comprising the five-mora uketamawa- part).

承(しょう) • (shō) 

1. consent

From Middle Chinese 承 (MC dzying).

承 (eumhun 이을 승 (ieul seung))

1. hanja form^? of 승 (“inherit”)

• 계승 (繼承, gyeseung, “inheritance”)
• 승낙 (承諾, seungnak, “consent, assent, agreement, acceptation”)

承 (eumhun 건질 증 (geonjil jeung))

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of 拯 (“hanja form^? of 증 (“help”)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

承: Hán Nôm readings: thừa

1. In excess
2. Inherit