The kanji 仰: meaning, readings and stroke order
仰
- Meaning
- look up, respect
- On reading
- ギョウ gyou、コウ* kou
- Kun reading
- あお(ぐ) aogu、おお(せ) oose
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 人 man, human
- Level
- Level 7 · junior high school
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- ngước nhìn, tôn kính (ngưỡng)
- Japanese
- あおぐ。うえを みる。
- Korean
- 우러러보다 (앙)
- Chinese
- 仰望、敬仰
Readings, words and example sentences
ギョウ gyou · on reading · less common
仰天
great surprise
その 話に 仰天しました。
I was astonished by that story.
あお(ぐ) aogu · kun reading · less common
仰ぐ
to look up (at)
空を 仰ぎます。
I look up at the sky.
おお(せ) oose · kun reading · less common
仰せ
what a respected person says (very polite word)
先生の 仰せに したがいます。
I do as my teacher says.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.