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仰止
yǎng​zhǐ

admiration

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  • 高山仰止 gāo​shān​yǎng​zhǐ to admire great virtue
    To look up to someone of high moral character with awe and admiration; refers to a person of awesome virtue. From a line in the [[诗经|詩經|shi1 jing1]] that means "the high mountain is looked up to; the great road is followed"