仰望 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

yǎngwàng

look up

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

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

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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)

wàng, wang to look at

Pictograph of a person standing up (𡈼) and gazing at the moon (月). 亡 is a sound component.

Components

亡 Sound component

wáng death

月 Iconic component

yuè, yue moon

𡈼 Iconic component

tǐng, tíng, zhēng stand upright

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	mjang	maŋ	look at from a distance
	mjangH	maŋ-s	look at from a distance

說文解字

《說文》：“望，出亡在外，望其還也。从亡，朢省聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

仰 yǎng raise the head to look

Components

Character Evolution

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說文解字

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望 wàng, wang to look at

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Character Evolution

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yǎng raise the head to look

wàng, wang to look at