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yǎngzhàng

rely

yǎng raise the head to look

To exalt 卬 a person 亻

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

卬 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

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ngjangX	C.ŋaŋʔ	lift the face, look up
Zhengzhang		ŋaŋʔ
		ŋaŋs
Unicode	ngiɑ̌ng
	ngiɑ̌ng

說文解字

舉也。从人从卬。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

zhàng weaponry, war

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 丈 represents the sound.

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

丈 Sound component

zhàng unit of length ~ 3 meters

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang		daŋʔ
		daŋs
Unicode	djhiɑ̀ng
	djhiɑ̌ng

Sources

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