Ideographic: Three hands 手 lifting a dead body 了Radical:

meaning for chéng:

  • - to bear
  • - to carry
  • - to hold
  • - to continue
  • - to undertake
  • - to take charge
  • - owing to
  • - due to
  • - to receiveto admit
  • - to concede
  • - to recognize
  • - recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc)
  • - to acknowledgeto undertake
  • - to assume (responsibility etc)to inherit
  • - to succeed to (the throne etc)
  • - to carry on (a tradition etc)to promise
  • - to undertake to do something
  • - commitmentto contract
  • - to undertake (a job)