yǎng​tǎng

lie on back

yǎng raise the head to look

To exalt  a person 

Components

Meaning component
rén person
Meaning component
áng, ang, yǎng high

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartngjangXC.ŋaŋʔlift the face, look up
Zhengzhangŋaŋʔ
ŋaŋs
Unicodengiɑ̌ng
ngiɑ̌ng

說文解字

舉也。从人从卬。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

tǎng lie down

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shēn body
Sound component
shàng, shang esteem

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰaːŋʔ

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang