仰 yǎng

1. yǎng verb to look upwards; to face up
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 朝上 or 向上 (CC-CEDICT '仰'; Guoyu '仰' v 2; Kroll 2015 '仰' 1, p. 533; Unihan '仰'; XHZD '仰' 1, p. 871)
2. yǎng verb to rely on; to have confidence in
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 仰仗 (CC-CEDICT '仰'; Guoyu '仰' v 5; Kroll 2015 '仰' 2a, p. 533; Unihan '仰'; XHZD '仰' 3, p. 871)
3. yǎng verb to admire
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 敬慕 (CC-CEDICT '仰'; Guoyu '仰' v 3; Kroll 2015 '仰' 2, p. 533; Unihan '仰'; XHZD '仰' 2, p. 871)
4. yǎng verb with respect [submitting a document]
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A polite expression (Guoyu '仰' v 4; XHZD '仰' 4, p. 871)
5. yǎng verb to hope for
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '仰' 3, p. 533)
6. yǎng verb to raise the head
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 抬头 (Guoyu '仰' v 1)
7. yǎng proper noun Yang
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '仰' n)

Contained in

• 仰卧起坐(仰臥起坐) sit-up; curl-up
• 仰攀 to climb upwards ; social climbing
• 仰视(仰視) to look up
• 前俯后仰(前俯後仰) to rock one's body backward and forward; to be convulsed (with laughter etc)
• 久仰 I've long looked forward to meeting you; It's an honor to meet you at last
• 俯仰无愧(俯仰無愧) to have a clear conscience
• 仰慕 to admire
• 仰望 to look up at
• 信仰 faith; belief ; to have faith; to believe
• 钻坚仰高(鑽堅仰高) looking up to it, it gets higher; boring into it, it gets harder (from Analects); to delve deeply into one's studies
• 仰头(仰頭) to raise one's head
• 仰屋 to lie looking at the ceiling (in despair)
• 仰屋著书(仰屋著書) to stare at the ceiling while writing a book; to put one's whole body and soul into a book
• 仰莲(仰蓮) upright lotus
• 仰赖(仰賴) to rely on
• 俯仰 lowering and raising of the head; (fig.) small move; pitch (position angle)
• 仰卧推举(仰臥推舉) bench press
• 渴仰 to look up to reverently
• 仰人鼻息 to rely on others for the air one breathes; to depend on somebody's whim for one's living
• 仰屋兴叹(仰屋興嘆) to stare at the ceiling in despair; to find no way out; nothing you can do about it
• 笑不可仰 to double up with laughter
• 仰仗 to rely on; to depend on
• 仰观(仰觀) sees beyond
• 民俗信仰 folk religion; popular religion
• 众人敬仰(眾人敬仰) universally admired; highly esteemed by everyone
• 前仰后合(前仰後合) to sway to and fro; to rock back and forth
• 仰卧(仰臥) to lie supine
• 景仰 to admire; to revere; to look up to
• 四仰八叉 sprawled out on one's back
• 敬仰 to revere; to esteem
• 民间信仰(民間信仰) folk religion; popular religion
• 仰天太息 look up at the sky and gasp
• 瞻仰 to look up at ; to revere; to admire
• 祇仰 to look up in admiration
• 仰卧式(仰臥式) corpse pose (yoga)
• 仰泳 backstroke
• 信仰者 a believer
• 俛仰 to lower one's head and raise one's head ; expressing the briefness of time
• 与世俯仰(與世俯仰) to swim with the tide
• 宗教信仰 religious beliefs
• 仰躺 to lie on one's back
• 钦仰(欽仰) to admire and respect
• 信仰体系(信仰體系) a belief system
• 俯仰终宇宙(俯仰終宇宙) at a single glance I survey the whole Universe
• 仰之弥高(仰之彌高) to look up at something tall and lofty; to admire
• 六马仰秣(六馬仰秣) six horses with heads raised eating fodder
• 俯仰之间(俯仰之間) in a flash

Also contained in

仰光大金塔 、 仰山 、 仰天山 、 仰光

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Truncated for common words

• 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 56
• 卷六十二 志第三十八 樂二 Volume 62 Treatises 38: Music 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 36
• 卷六十三 志第三十九 樂三 Volume 63 Treatises 39: Music 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 33
• 卷108之三 禮志四之三 Volume 108c Treatise 4: Rituals 3 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 19
• 卷二百十五 列傳第一百〇三 王治 歐陽一敬 周弘祖 詹仰庇 駱問禮 鄭履淳 陳吾德 汪文輝 劉奮庸 Volume 215 Biographies 103: Ouyang Yijing, Zhou Hongzu, Zhan Yangbi, Luo Wenli, Zheng Luchun, Chen Wude, Wang Wenhui, Liu Fenyong History of Ming 明史 — count: 15
• 卷二十八　列傳第十六:　陸俟 源賀 劉尼 薛提 Volume 28 Biographies 16: Lu Si, Yuan He, Liu Ni, Xue Ti History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 15
• 卷二百六十一 列傳第一百四十九 盧象昇 劉之綸 丘民仰 Volume 261 Biographies 149: Lu Xiangsheng, Liu Zhilun, Qiu Minyang History of Ming 明史 — count: 12
• 卷二十 志第十 樂二 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Music 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 10
• 卷21下 獻文六王下 Volume 21b: Emperor Xianwen's Six Princes 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 10
• 卷四十七 Scroll 47 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10

Collocations

• 首仰 (首仰) 封君皆低首仰給 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 50
• 仰足 (仰足) 三月二月正月十二月十一月中關內高外下四月首仰足開肣開首俛大五月橫吉首俛大六月七月八月九月十月 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners — count: 36
• 仰给 (仰給) 衣食仰給縣官 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 14
• 高山仰 (高山仰) 高山仰止 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧車舝 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Che Xia — count: 9
• 偃仰 (偃仰) 或棲遲偃仰 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧谷風之什‧北山 Minor odes of the kingdom - Gu Feng Zhi Shen - Bei Shan — count: 7
• 仰止 (仰止) 高山仰止 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧甫田之什‧車舝 Minor odes of the kingdom - Fu Tian Zhi Shen - Che Xia — count: 6
• 仰上 (仰上) 莫不仰上之德 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十　泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 5
• 仰关 (仰關) 仰關而攻秦 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 1 — count: 3
• 仰衣食 (仰衣食) 仰衣食 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平津侯主父列傳》 Biographies of the Marquis of Pingjin and Zhufu — count: 3
• 榆仰 (榆仰) 命曰橫吉榆仰 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners — count: 3