Zi:乘

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[chéng] ride a vehicle (乘​ ‘passenger’, 乘​ ‘ride as passenger’); 乘​ vehicle; multiply (乘​ ‘product’); (HDZ:) … [shèng] chariot (​乘 ‘Mahayana’, ​乘 ‘Hinayana’) [chèng] cf. ​: ​

One monosyllabic entry in The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary (namespace Jyut):

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2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

³chéng {B} v.ride∼ jǐ lù chē? ∼几路车? Which bus do we take?take advantage of; avail oneself of〈environment:〉 math. multiply; timesWǔ ∼ sān děngyú shíwǔ. 五∼三等于十五。 Five times three is fifteen.
⁵shèng b.f. 〈environment:〉 trad. carriage drawn by four horses ►shèngmǎ 乘马 ►Dàshèng 大乘

The Shuōwén Seal form of 乘(​􀻠𣔕) chéng ‘overturn/suppress (rebellion); surmount (gallows); (climb upon) drive/ride’ combines ​(​􀸾) rù ‘into/upon’, and ​(​􀻞) jié ‘gallows’: in martial law, enforce discipline, put down rebellion by catching the traitors/leaders, and making them mount the gallows (or impaling them on stakes/posts); formerly also wr. ​𠅞(​􀻡), with ​(​􂠁) ‘bench/stand’ instead of ​(​􀻢).
    Note: The old meaning 乘(​􀻠𣔕) chéng ‘overturn/suppress (rebellion)’ explains the character structure, with ‘climb/mount the martial gallows’, later ‘climb/mount a war chariot’ (going to war as death sentence); the ​(​􀸾) component is as sharp as the arrowhead of ​(​􀹜) shǐ ‘arrow’; in the SW gloss ​ ‘cover over, overturn’ is said to refer to the function of the upper component ​ ‘enter onto/upon’ (cover over, from above).
    Note: Modern usage 乘 chéng ‘ride’ stems from older ‘climb up, ride/drive’ usage; formerly also 乘 shèng ‘carriage/chariot’ (​乘 chēshèng ‘乘​’).
    “[乘] Picture of a war chariot with a fence roof and ​ two men” —Karlgren(AD).
    Note: In the modern form 乘 the components seem to be ​ and ​, but 乘 (10 strokes) was formerly wr. ​𣔕 (12 strokes), with ​ in the middle (not ​).
    HDZ: 乘 : chéng : ​, ​; ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​, ​; ​; ​; ​, ​; (SW:) ​; (​) 乘​; (​) (​ shèng) • shèng : (​) ​; ​ (cf. ​: ​, ​); 乘​, (​) ​ (​ chéng) (​乘, ​乘, ​乘, ​乘, ​乘); ​, ​; ​; (​) (​) ​, ​乘; (​) (​) ​, (​乘); ​, ​; (​) (​) ​; (​) ​, ​
►references: Guǎngyùn:199.31,432.48; Wieger:31e; Karlgren:AD1207,GSR895a; Creel(1939:V.2):84; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.40.1; Mathews:398; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:83.09; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:157.1.06; EDOC:1
►components:
►Cantonese: sihng\ sihng-
Shuōwén: ​􀻠(​𣔕)
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