áng
rise
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 卬 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
áng
rise, raise; proud, bold; upright; to lift; to raise; to raise one's head; high; high spirits; soaring; expensive
Most common words with 昂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to lift | ||
expensive | ||
Lyon, French city on the Rhône | ||
expensive | ||
impassioned |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.9540% of movies
1887th most common character in movies
1952nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6602 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“昂，舉也。从日，卬聲。” |
Sources
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