áng, ang
high
Depicts a person kneeling (卩) looking up to a person standing (人).
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k.ŋ]ˤaŋ | ngang | áng | high; lift high |
*ŋˤaŋ | ngang | áng | I, me |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+536C |
Shuowen | “卬，望欲有所庶及也。从匕，从卪。” |
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