yǎng
raise the head to look
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 仰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
firm belief | ||
to look up | ||
to look up at | ||
to admire | ||
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。” |
Sources
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