卬

See also 卯, and 卵

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匕 + 卩: a man standing and a man kneeling; compare 化.

Han character

卬 (radical 26 卩+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸中 (HVSL), four-corner 2772₀)

1. lofty
2. high
3. raise
4. high-priced

Derived characters

• 迎

References

• KangXi: page 158, character 49
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2841
• Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 310, character 12
• Unihan data for U+536C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

卬 (Yale ngong4)

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Japanese

Kanji

卬

Readings

• On: がう (gau), きゃう (kyau)
• Kun: のぞむ (nozomu), なす (nasu), たかぶる (takaburu)

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Korean

Hanja

卬 (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune-Reischauer ang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

卬 (pinyin áng (ang2), Wade-Giles ang²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卬 (ngang, ngàng)