áng
adjective #7,455

Meanings

  1. 1 high; lofty; to hold high
  2. 2 expensive; costly (in compounds)

Examples

Tā áng zhe tóu zǒu le chūqù.
He walked out with his head held high.
Zhèlǐ de wùjià tài ángguì le.
The prices here are too expensive.
Tā jīngshén áng yáng de zǒu shàngtái.
He walked onto the stage in high spirits.

Tips

usage
is rarely used alone in modern Chinese. Common compounds: 昂贵 (ángguì, expensive), (ángyáng, high-spirited), (ángshǒu, to hold one's head high), 激昂 (jī'áng, impassioned).

Components

radical
sun; day
Top sun radical — a small square with a stroke inside, pictograph of the sun. Above the standing figure below, it gives the picture of the sun rising overhead: head lifted toward the morning light. The image directly supports senses like "lifted, soaring, high-spirited."
phonetic
áng
to look up; raise the head (phonetic)
Bottom supplies both sound and meaning — áng exactly, picturing two facing figures with one lifting their head. Same kernel: to look up, to welcome, to suppress. With the sun above, the character means "head raised toward the sun" — uplifted, animated.

Stroke Order

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