卬

Translingual

Han character

卬 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸中 (HVSL), four-corner 2772₀, composition ⿰⿱丿𠄌卩)

1. When used as a component in other characters , 卬 can be referred to as 昂字底.

Derived characters

• 仰 𢗾 抑 枊 䤝 䩕 䭹 迎 岇 䒢 昂 䀚 𨧞

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卬
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Etymology

The sense “I” has been hypothesized to be from 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”) (ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-j ~ ka) with an attached vocative suffix *-ŋ (Sagart, 1999: 134). However, evidence for the latter suffix is sparse; Sagart otherwise only adduces the pair of words 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas, “woman”) and 娘 (OC *naŋ, “mother (originally as a term of address)”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

卬

1. (literary or dialectal Mandarin, Old Xiang) I; me
2. Alternative form of 昂
   1. to raise
   2. high
3. a surname
4. To admire, or look up to (someone)

Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

卬

1. Alternative form of 仰

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

卬

1. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to stare blankly; to be in a daze
2. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) clumsy; awkward; sluggish (usually said in reduplication)

Compounds

References

• “卬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

Readings

• On (unclassified): ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}; きょう (kyō)^{←きやう (kyau, historical)}
• Kun: のぞむ (nozomu); なす (nasu); たかぶる (takaburu)

Korean

Hanja

卬 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang)

1. I, oneself
2. high
3. raise

Vietnamese

Han character

卬: Hán Việt readings: ngang
卬: Nôm readings: ngang

1. chữ Hán form of ngang (“first person pronoun in literary texts”).
2. Nôm form of ngang (“horizontal, level, flat, stubborn”).

References