承
cheng2Mathews: 0386GSR: 896c
Dictionary Definition
(to) receive, inherit, carry, bear, help, assist, serve, accept, enjoy, undergo, undertake, contract for, adopt, offer, present, continue, carry on, lift (up), uphold, hold up, support, acknowledge, recognize, honor, celebrate, meet (s, ed, ing); (a, the) help, service, support, assistance, acceptance, recognition, contract, assignment, undertaking (s)
Radical: 64+4 | First occurrence: Hexagram 07.6
Concordance & Context (11 occurrences)
Entries shown in Hatcher's reference chain order. First Witness at 07.6
6th Line★
(and) recognizes, accepts, adopts, upholds
大君有命，開國承家，小人勿用。
The seasoned noble assumes the mandate,
Establishes domains and recognizes ruling families
Lesser people will not be used
Stats: 64+4→ 12.2
2nd Line
assignments, service; servitude, servility
包承，小人吉，大人否亨。
Embracing servitude
The common one’s promise
Is the mature one’s worthless fulfillment
→ 32.3
3rd Line
accept, inherit, enjoy, adopt, continue (ing)
不恆其德，或承之羞。贞吝。
Lacking continuity in one’s character
Somehow continuing in such unworthiness
What persists is embarrassment
→ 54.6
6th Line
carries, bears, presents; offers, holds (up)
女承筐無實，士刲羊無血，無攸利。
The bride offers up a basket, with no contents
The groom sacrifices a lamb, with no blood
Not a direction with merit
→ 02.T
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女承筐無實，士刲羊無血，無攸利。
The bride offers up a basket, with no contents
The groom sacrifices a lamb, with no blood
Not a direction with merit
Tuan Zhuan
7.2x inherit, receive, enjoy, uphold (s)
至哉坤元，萬物資生，乃順承天。坤厚載物，德合無疆，含弘光大，品物咸亨。牝馬地類，行地無疆，柔順利贞。君子攸行，先迷失道，後順得常。西南得朋，乃與類行；東北丧朋，乃終有慶。安贞之吉，應地無疆。
How consummate (is) receptivity’s source!
The myriad beings (are) provided with life
And so, (in) acceptance, inherit the sky
Accepting (with) generosity upholds the outer world
Character accommodates without drawing boundaries
Comprehending vastness, exemplifying wholeness
The varieties of beings (are) joined in fulfillment
The mare (is) the earth’s kindred spirit
(And) wanders an earth with no borders
Gentleness (and) acceptance reward persistence:
The noble young one’s purpose in going
To initiate confusion (is) to stray from the way
To follow (with) acceptance (is) to learn the principles
West (to) south, find companions:
And so, with the help of one’s kind, make progress
East (to) north, forgo companions:
Although, in the end, there will be rewards
Securing the certain holds promise:
The response to a world without limits
→ 07.6
Xiao Xiang 2
undertaking, receiving, enjoying, upholding
在師中吉，承天寵也。王三錫命，懷萬邦也。
07.2x At the heart of the militia (is) promise:
Upholding heaven’s favor
* The sovereign three times grants commissions:
Embracing the myriad realms
→ 18.1x
Xiao Xiang 1
to inherit, undertake, take up; undergo
幹父之蠱，意承考也。
18.1x Correcting father’s fixations:
Intending to inherit the examined
→ 18.5x
Xiao Xiang 5
recognition, acknowledgement; undertaken
幹父用譽，承以德也。
18.5x Correcting father using praise:
Recognition for merit
→ 54.1x
Xiao Xiang 1
accept(ance), assist, support, uphold (ing); (v)
歸妹以娣，以恆也。跛能履，吉相承也。
54.1x Little sister marries as second wife:
In order to endure
* The lame can (still) take steps:
Fortunate
(In) supporting each other
→ 60.4x
Xiao Xiang 4
(under)take, accept, acknowledge (ing)
安節之亨，承上道也。
60.4x Contentment with boundaries comes to fulfillment:
Undertaking a higher path
→ 07.6
Homophones (cheng)
穪cheng1assessing, appraising, weighing, evaluating成cheng2(to) accomplish, achieve, actualize, arrive at, become, bring about, come to pass, complement, complete, determine, establish, finish, follow through, fulfill, make, perfect, realize, succeed, take place (s, ed, ing); (to be) accomplished, achieved, actualized, arrived at, complete, completed, done, entire, finished, fulfilled, full, mature, perfect, perfected, realized, whole; (fully) developed formed; (a, the) 418 accomplishment, achievement, complement, fulfillment, completion, end, follow through, outcome, realization (of); of completion; entirely, completely, perfectly城cheng2(the) (city) wall(s), battlements, ramparts懲cheng2corrects, curbs, rectifies, precludes, rules out乘cheng2(to) avail (oneself) of, take advantage of, take, take control of, multiply, ascend on, be carried by, rely on, rely upon, supersede, mount, surmount, overcome, drive, ride, ascend, go upon, seize, bully, chance/opportunity (s, ed, ing); (to be) mounted, astride, on top of, above, upon, riding, in control, carried by; (a, the) team, ride, mount, four-team, team of four, chariot
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