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承兌

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Mandarin · pinyin chéng duì

(commerce) to accept (i.e. acknowledge as calling for payment)
to honor (a check, a promise)

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承: chéng · inherit, receive; succeed
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兑: duì · cash; exchange

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2–4 · cheng2 dui4

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verb

to accept to pay

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