Chinese Character Wiki

仰

yǎng

raise the head to look

To exalt 卬 a person 亻

Components
亻 meaning component

亻  Meaning component

rén

  

person

卬 meaning component

卬  Meaning component

áng, ang

  

high

Evolution

仰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
仰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
仰 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
仰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

仰  

yǎng

raise the head to look; look up to, rely on, admire; to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on

仰  

Yǎng

surname Yang

Most common words with 仰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

信仰

firm belief

仰

to look up

仰望

to look up at

仰慕

to admire

敬仰

to revere

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ŋaŋʔ

ngjangX

yǎng

lift the face, look up


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 17.1712% of movies

1525th most common character in movies

1368th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+4EF0

Shuowen

“仰，舉也。从人，从卬。”


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