承上起下 Save Sign in to save words chéngshàngqǐxià ㄔㄥˊ ㄕㄤˋ ㄑㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄚˋ to follow the past and herald the future (idiom) part of a historical transition forming a bridge between earlier and later stages Character by character 承(chéng)surname Cheng 上(shàng)up 起(qǐ)rise 下(xià)down A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0