1 to bear

2 to support

3 to inherit

1 to admit

2 to concede

3 to recognize

4 recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc)

5 to acknowledge

1 to promise

2 to undertake to do something

3 commitment

1 variant: 照 zhào

2 to shine

3 to illuminate

1 photograph

2 picture

3 classifier: 张 zhāng

4 classifier: 套 tào

5 classifier: 幅 fú

1 traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)

1 to ask sb to carefully consider a request (idiom)

1 General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)

1 lit. to respond to heaven and suit the times (idiom); to rule according to the will of heaven

2 the Divine Right of kings

1 to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition

2 forming a bridge between earlier and later stages