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
仰望
yǎngwàng
to look up at; to admire
Characters in this word
望 wàng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 月 — moon
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 孩子仰望星空时提出的问题，往往比课本答案更接近真正的好奇心。 Háizi yǎngwàng xīngkōng shí tíchū de wèntí, wǎngwǎng bǐ kèběn dá'àn gèng jiējìn zhēnzhèng de hàoqíxīn. The questions children ask while looking up at the stars are often closer to genuine curiosity than textbook answers.
- 我们坐在山顶上，仰望满天繁星，谁都不想说话。 Wǒmen zuò zài shāndǐng shàng, yǎngwàng mǎn tiān fánxīng, shéi dōu bùxiǎng shuōhuà. We sat on the mountaintop looking up at a sky full of stars, and nobody wanted to speak.
- 学生们仰望这位德高望重的老先生，认真听他讲话。 Xuéshēngmen yǎngwàng zhè wèi dégāowàngzhòng de lǎo xiānsheng, rènzhēn tīng tā jiǎnghuà. The students looked up to the highly respected old teacher and listened to him attentively.
Related words
- 仰 yǎng to look up
- 久仰 jiǔyǎng I have long admired you; I have long heard of you
- 信仰 xìnyǎng belief; faith; to believe in
- 瞻仰 zhānyǎng to pay reverent respect to; to look at with reverence
- 希望 xīwàng to hope; hope
- 愿望 yuànwàng wish
- 看望 kànwàng to visit
- 失望 shīwàng to be disappointed
- 绝望 juéwàng despair
- 渴望 kěwàng to long for
- 期望 qīwàng to hope; to expect
- 盼望 pànwàng to long for, to look forward to