The word 承认 is formed by combining two meaningful characters: 承, which carries the sense of "to undertake", "to bear", or "to receive", and 认, which means "to recognize" or "to identify". When merged, the concept evolves from the individual ideas of "receiving/bearing" and "recognizing" into a unified meaning of "to admit" or "to acknowledge", where one accepts and bears responsibility for the truth of a fact or situation. This formation is a classical example of semantic compounding in Chinese, where the combined meaning of the constituent parts creates a new, more specific conceptual whole.