卬

卬 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹女尸中 (HVSL) or 竹山尸中 (HUSL), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰⿱丿𠄌卩)

• 仰, 𱒌, 𡊁, 𮰺, 𡵙, 𢓋, 𢗾, 抑, 枊, 𭯹, 𥸾, 𦕅, 𫆗, 𧥴, 𨋕, 䤝, 𲇳, 䩕, 䭹, 𩾱, 𩑝
• 岇, 昂, 䀚, 䒢, 𡊂, 𱳲, 𬒉, 迎, 𨧞

• 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

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 (huà), 比 (bǐ), 北 (běi) and 尼 (ní).

The sense “I” has been hypothesized to be from 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”) (ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa) 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.)

卬

1. (Classical or dialectal Mandarin, Old Xiang) I; me

   Synonym: 姎 (yāng)

   • 招招舟子，人涉卬否。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhāozhāo zhōuzǐ, rén shè áng fǒu.

     The boatman keeps beckoning, and others cross with him, but I do not.

2. (Classical) to meet, converge

   • 若川然，有原以卬浦，而後大。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     若川然，有原以卬浦，而后大。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

     Ruò chuān rán, yǒu yuán yǐ áng pǔ, ér hòu dà.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. Obsolete form of 昂 (“to raise; to be stirred, be roused; high”).

   • 貫歷覽其中操兮，意慷慨而自卬。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     贯历览其中操兮，意慷慨而自卬。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Wen Xuan, 6^th century CE

     Guàn lìlǎn qízhōng cāo xī, yì kāngkǎi ér zì áng.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (historical) (～州) place to the south of 交州 (Jiāozhōu) and 廣州／广州 (Guǎngzhōu)
5. a surname

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

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卬

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

• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “卬”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00275
• “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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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

• 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)

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

1. I, oneself
2. high
3. raise

卬: Hán Việt readings: ngang^[1][2][3][4]
卬: Nôm readings: ngang^[1]

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