承认
chéngrèn · HSK 4
acknowledge
🤝 承 = receive/bear + 认 = recognize → acknowledge
承 carries the sense of accepting or bearing, while 认 means to recognize or admit. Together they mean to acknowledge or admit something — receiving recognition of a fact.
认 — speech radical 讠 + 忍 rěn (phonetic)
认 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the speech radical 讠 (simplified from 言) signals meaning related to words or speaking, while 忍 rěn provides the sound. The traditional form 認 carried senses of 'acknowledge' or 'recognize through speech,' which extended to today's meanings of recognizing, identifying, and admitting.