仰 yǎng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 卬 lofty
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
仰
yǎng
to look up
Character
Example phrases
- 他仰着头看夜空，试图找到那颗行星。 Tā yǎng zhe tóu kàn yèkōng, shìtú zhǎodào nà kē xíngxīng. He looked up at the night sky, trying to find that planet.
- 他仰起头，看着天上飞过的大雁。 Tā yǎngqǐ tóu, kànzhe tiānshang fēiguò de dàyàn. He raised his head and watched the wild geese flying across the sky.
- 他仰着头喝完了杯里的水。 Tā yǎngzhe tóu hē wán le bēi lǐ de shuǐ. He tilted his head back and drank up the water in the cup.
Related words
- 久仰 jiǔyǎng I have long admired you; I have long heard of you
- 信仰 xìnyǎng belief; faith; to believe in
- 仰望 yǎngwàng to look up at; to admire
- 瞻仰 zhānyǎng to pay reverent respect to; to look at with reverence
- 睁 zhēng to open
- 跪 guì to kneel
- 踩 cǎi to step on
- 蹲 dūn to squat
- 扭 niǔ to twist, to turn
- 跌 diē to fall
- 牵 qiān to pull, to involve
- 后退 hòutuì to retreat, to move back