丞
Meanings
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- 1.deputy
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Wiktionary
- 1.to assist, to aid
- 2.a low-level assistant to the governor of a county
- 3.a surname
- 4.Original form of 拯 (zhěng, “to rescue”).
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 卩 (“kneeling person”) + 廾 (“both hands”) + 凵 (“hole”) – to rescue a person from a hole. Compare 承. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ (“upper part; rise; raise”).
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