昂

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See also: 昻 and 䀚
昂 U+6602, 昂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6602
← 昁
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昃 →

Translingual

Han character

昂 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日竹女中 (AHVL), four-corner 60127, composition ⿱日卬)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 490, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13783
  • Dae Jaweon: page 851, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1495, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6602

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 昂
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (卬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卬 *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ
枊 *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaːŋs
昂 *ŋaːŋ
仰 *ŋaŋʔ, *ŋaŋs
迎 *ŋaŋ, *ŋraŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːŋ) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 卬 (OC *ŋaːŋ, *ŋaŋʔ, “man standing and man kneeling”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note: ngong5 - variant.
Note: ngông - substitute character for "dizzy", "disoriented".
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 昂
Mandarin Beijing /aŋ³⁵/
Harbin /aŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /nɑŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /ŋaŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /ɣaŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /aŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /ŋaŋ²¹/
Xining /nɔ̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɑŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /ɑ̃⁵³/
Ürümqi /ŋaŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ŋaŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /ŋaŋ³¹/
/iaŋ³¹/
Guiyang /ŋaŋ²¹/
/aŋ²¹/ 新
Kunming /ã̠³¹/
Nanjing /aŋ²⁴/
Hefei /ʐɑ̃⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣɒ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /ŋɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /ŋɑ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ŋɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /ŋɑ̃¹³/
Hangzhou /ŋɑŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ŋuɔ³¹/
Hui Shexian /ŋa⁴⁴/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋan¹³/
Xiangtan /ŋan¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ŋoŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /ŋoŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋɔŋ²¹/
Nanning /ŋɔŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /ŋɔŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /gɔŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ŋouŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ŋɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /ŋaŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ŋaŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 昂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 五岡切
Baxter ngang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/ŋɑŋ/
Wang
Li 		/ŋɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ŋɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		áng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ngong4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 昂
Reading # 1/1
No. 29
Phonetic
component 		卬
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		卬
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋaːŋ/

Definitions

昂

  1. to raise; to lift
  2. to rise
  3. high spirited; upright
  4. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

昂

  1. ‡ Only used in 昂昂 (yàngyàng, “virtuous; respectable (of a ruler)”).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

昂

  1. Alternative form of 仰 (“to raise one's head; to have one's face and belly face upward”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

昂

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. high spirited
  2. to raise the head

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

昂 • (ang) (hangeul 앙, revised ang, McCune–Reischauer ang, Yale ang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昂: Hán Nôm readings: ngang, ngáng, ngàng, ngãng, ngâng

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