shòu chéng zhī guān
Also rendered: office of reception (受 only, and suggests a doorway) · office of the receiver (Same difficulty)
Reviewed · 2026-09
At a glance
The small intestine’s office: what the stomach has broken down is handed on to it, and it holds it and finishes the work. What issues is 化物 — the separating out of what is usable from what is not. The reading to guard is 盛 as chéng, to fill, not shèng, to flourish: this office is a vessel, not a peak.
Passages where the term does real work, with the original, pinyin and English on the same line.
Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.
| Common English | office of reception / office of receiving | Reception is the more common and the less exact: it suggests being admitted rather than being held. |
| This site | office of receiving | 盛 is read chéng, to fill, so the office is a vessel that is handed something and holds it; receiving carries both halves, and the gloss gives the reading so 盛 is not taken as shèng. |
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