Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

仰: face-up, look up

Also: depend, seek, respect, revere, drink, take

JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 卬 gives the sound

6 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

ギョウgyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 仰天ぎょうてんbeing amazed; being horrified
  • 大仰おおぎょうexaggerated; overblown; overdone

コウkou · on'yomi

  • 信仰しんこう(religious) faith; belief; creed

あおぐaogu · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 仰ぐあおぐto look up (at)
  • 仰向けあおむけfacing upward

おっしゃるossharu · kun'yomi

  • 仰るおっしゃるto say; to speak; to tell

Also read おおせ, おっしゃる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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卬

Also built on 卬

仰 takes the 卬 family's reading, キョウ (kyou).

Also read ギョウ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read コウ

96 kanji share this on'yomiAll 96

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
仰 face-up · 亻
vs迎 welcome · ⻌
仰 has 亻 where 迎 has ⻌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yǎng

Same form: 仰 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
仰 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
仰 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yǎng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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