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擎

qíng
verb #33,471

Meanings

  1. 1 to lift up; to hold aloft; to raise (above one's head)
  2. 2 to support (literary)

Examples

他高擎火炬走在队伍前面。
Tā gāo qíng huǒjù zǒu zài duìwǔ qiánmiàn.
He held the torch high and walked at the front of the procession.
众擎易举。
Zhòng qíng yì jǔ.
What many lift together is easy to raise. (proverb: many hands make light work)

Tips

usage
擎 is literary/elevated — everyday Mandarin uses 举 (jǔ) 'to raise' or 抬 (tái) 'to lift'. 擎 survives in fixed phrases (高擎火炬 'hold the torch high', 一柱擎天 'a single pillar holds up the sky') and in the modern compound 引擎 (yǐnqíng = 'engine', borrowed phonetically from English).
memory
Look at the structure: 敬 'respect' on top, 手 'hand' on the bottom — the visual logic is 'a respectful hand raised up', which fits 'lift on high'.

Stroke Order

擎 qíng