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仰

仰

仰 U+4EF0, 仰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EF0
← 仯
[U+4EEF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仱 →
[U+4EF1]

Translingual

Han character

仰 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人竹女中 (OHVL), four-corner 27220, composition ⿰亻卬)

  1. raise the head to look
  2. look up to, admire
  3. rely on

References

  • KangXi: page 94, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 400
  • Dae Jaweon: page 199, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 125, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4EF0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 仰

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 仰
Mandarin Beijing /iɑŋ²¹⁴/
Harbin /iaŋ²¹³/
Tianjin /iɑŋ¹³/
Jinan /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /iaŋ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /iaŋ⁵³/
Xi'an /niaŋ⁵³/
/iaŋ⁵³/
Xining /iɔ̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /iɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /iɑ̃⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /iɑŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /iaŋ⁴²/
Chengdu /iaŋ⁵³/
Guiyang /niaŋ⁴²/
Kunming /niã̠⁵³/
Nanjing /liaŋ²¹²/
Hefei /iɑ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iɒ̃⁵³/
Pingyao /iɑŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /iɑ̃⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiã³⁵/
/ȵiã²³/
Suzhou /ȵiã⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ȵiɑŋ⁵³/
Wenzhou /ȵi³⁵/
Hui Shexian /nia³⁵/
Tunxi /ȵiau³¹/
Xiang Changsha /ȵian⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ȵian⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ȵiɔŋ²¹³/
Hakka Meixian
Taoyuan /ŋioŋ³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jœŋ²³/
Nanning /jœŋ²⁴/
Hong Kong /jœŋ¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /giɔŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nyoŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋiɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋiaŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /niaŋ²¹³/
Rime
Character 仰 仰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 疑 (31) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 陽 (105) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 魚兩切 魚向切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɨɐŋX/ /ŋɨɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋiɐŋX/ /ŋiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiɑŋX/ /ŋiɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɨaŋX/ /ŋɨaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiaŋX/ /ŋiaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭaŋX/ /ŋĭaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi̯aŋX/ /ŋi̯aŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǎng yàng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 仰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǎng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjangX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ŋaŋʔ/
English lift the face, look up

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 仰 仰
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 31 33
Phonetic
component		 卬 卬
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 仰 𨋕
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaŋʔ/ /*ŋaŋs/

Definitions

仰

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Japanese

Kanji

仰

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Related terms

  • 仰々しい, 仰仰しい
  • 仰けぞる
  • 仰っしゃる
  • 仰のく
  • 仰のける
  • 仰向く
  • 仰反る

Korean

Hanja

仰 • ‎(ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune-Reischauer ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

仰 (ngưỡng)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 仰
Small seal script
Large seal script

L35073

L35074

L17428

L17429

L17430

L17431
Small seal script

s05776
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (卬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卬 *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ
枊 *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaːŋs
昂 *ŋaːŋ
仰 *ŋaŋʔ, *ŋaŋs
迎 *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs

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