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zhěng
  1. 1.to raise
  2. 2.to aid
  3. 3.to support
  4. 4.to save
  5. 5.to rescue

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to rescue; to save; to aid
  2. 2.to lift; to raise

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kljɯŋʔ): semantic 手 + phonetic 丞 (OC *ɡljɯŋ, *ɡljɯŋs). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tVŋ (“upper part; to rise; to raise”). Related to 承 (OC *ɡljɯŋ, “to receive”), 烝 (OC *kljɯŋ, “to offer (gifts, sacrifices, etc.)”), 登 (OC *tɯːŋ, “to mount; to rise”), 升 (OC *hljɯŋ, “to rise”) (Schuessler, 2007; Sagart and Baxter, 2012).

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Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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