Taxonomy of meanings for 仰:　　

  • 仰 yǎng (OC: ŋaŋʔ MC: ŋiɐŋ) 魚兩切 上 廣韻：【偃仰也説文舉也魚兩切三 】
    • LOOK UP
      • nabactthe action of throwing one's head back so as to face upwards
      • vadVbending back (so as to look upwards), looking upwards
      • vadVfigurativelooking above, in respect to those higher in position (parents, ruler, etc.)
      • viactthrow one's head back, look upwards, look up
      • vtoNlook up at (Heaven) 仰天
      • vtoNfromlook up from (something one is basically concerned with)
      • vt[oN]derivedspecific: look up in one's text> look at what precedes in the textCH
      • vt[oN]look up into antiquityCH
      • vadVact, derivedfigurative: looking "up" into earlier timesVK
      • gramamticalised: looking up (… and looking down)> AND
        • vadV1.adV2one the one hand (and on the other) 仰...俯
        • position> HIGH
          • visubject=inanimatestand highCH
          • causative> LIFT
            • vtoNlift one's head, raise one's head 仰首　ant. 俯 "lower one's head".
      • grammaticalised: UPWARD
          • colloquial> INTENSELY
              • psychological> ADMIRE
                • vtoNlook up towards and admire
                • emotionally> DELIGHT
                  • vtoNlook up to with anticipation and expectations; look forward to (things or events)
      • 仰 yàng (OC: ŋaŋs MC: ŋiɐŋ) 魚向切 去 廣韻：【又魚兩切 】
        • RELY ON
          • vt+prep+Nrely on N
          • vtoN.adVrelying on N
          • vtoNlook up to for sustenance and necessary support; depend on
          • vttoN1.+prep+N2rely on N2 for N1
          • vttoN1(.+N2)depend on something contextually determinate N2 for N1
      • 仰 áng《集韻》魚剛切，平唐疑。

          Additional information about 仰

          說文解字: 【仰】，舉也。从人、从 卬 【魚兩切】

            Criteria
          • LOOK

            1. The current word for looking at something close in general is shì 視, but the word can also occasionally refer specifically to looking down rather than up. (See also SEE.)

            2. Wàng 望 (and the much rarer tiào 眺 / 覜 and zhān 瞻 ) refer to looking at something from a distance (often with connotations of admiration), and the connoted direction is always upwards.

            3. Pàn 盼 refers to looking around with the expectation of finding something.

            4. Jiān 監 refers to looking at something so as to ascertain something about it or on the basis of it.

            5. Gù 顧 adds to the notion of looking at something the turning of one's head, or one's attention, from something to what is being looked at. Juàn 眷 is intensitive for gù 顧.

            6. Dǔ 睹 / 者 plus 見 on-right adds to the notion of looking at something the connotation of intense pleasure and typically the hope of establishing personal or erotic contract with the person one looks at by looking at her.

            7. Dì 睇 and lài 睞 are rare words referring to a flirtatious quick glance.

            8. Nì 睨 and miǎn 眄 refers to looking at someone sidewise as a show of demonstrative disrespect.

            9. Yáng 仰 (ant. fǔ 俯 "look down") refers to throwing one's head back and look up. See LOOK UP

          • LOOK UP

            1. The most current general word for looking up is zhān 瞻, but this word typically connotes respect or admiration. See also ADMIRE

            2. Áng 昂 (ant. fǔ 俯 "look down") refers to holding one's head high and pushing out one's chest so as to face upwards in an imposing gesture of authority.

            3. Yǎng 仰 (ant. fǔ 俯 "look down") refers to throwing one's head back, but it does not specifically focus on the act of looking in that position.

            4. Wàng 望 refers to looking upwards or forward into the distance.

            仰視,　仰見,　仰望,　仰觀,　仰察

          • RELY ON

            1. The general term for relying on something with confidence is yīn 因.

            2. Yī 依 refers to dependence and reliance on something which may be deliberate or non-deliberate.

            3. Běn 本 refers to an abstract often almost metaphysical or logical dependence on something.

            4. Dài 待 refers to logical dependence on something

            5. Rén 任 typically refers to reliance on someone inferior in the context of public administration.

            6. Yǎng 仰 typically refers to hopeful reliance on a superior.

            7. Chéng 乘 refers to manifest deliberate reliance on some external condition for the furthering of one's own plans.

            8. Jiè 藉 / 借 and jiǎ 假 refer to availing oneself of conveniently available outside things for one's own purposes.

            9. Jì 寄 and tuō 託 refer to entrusting oneself to others and thus relying on them.

            10. Shì 恃 and the rare hù 怙 refer to reliance on a typically hidden basic resource or factor.

          • ADMIRE

            [ACTIVIY/STATE]

            [AESTHETIC/MORAL]

            [ASCENDING/HORIZONTAL/DESCENDING]

            [EMOTIONAL/RATIONAL]

            [HIGH-DEGREE/LOW-DEGREE]

            [MENTAL/OVERT]

            [OBJ=HU/OBJ=NONHU]

            [OBJECTIVE/SUBJECTIVE]

            [OVERT/COVERT]

            [PRIVATE/PUBLIC]

            1. The standard general word for admiration is mù 慕 (ant. bǐ 鄙 "hold in low esteem"), and this word often connotes emulation.

            [ASCENDING], [EMOTIONAL], [OBJ=HU], [STATE], [SUBJECTIVE]

            2. Wàng 望 refers to an intense distant admiration of some heroic or in any way especially elevated figure.

            [ACTIVITY], [ASCENDING], [HIGH-DEGREE], [OBJ=HU], [RATIONAL], [SUBJECTIVE]

            3. Yǎng 仰 (ant.* yì 易 "have no special respect for") refers to a distant veneration of some heroic or in any way especially elevated figure.

            [ACTIVITY], [ASCENDING], [HIGH-DEGREE], [OBJ=HU], [RATIONAL], [SUBJECTIVE]

            4. Shàng 尚 (ant. qīng 輕 "have no special respect for") refers to giving high practical priority to something or someone out of a sense of admiration or appreciation.

            [ACTIVITY], [ASCENDING], [OBJ=HU], [OVERT] [PUBLIC]

            5. Shàng 上 (ant. xià 下 "despise, have no special respect for") refer to giving high practical priority to something out of a sense of admiration or appreciation.

            [ASCENDING], [OBJ=NON-HU], [OBJECTIVE], [OVERT], [PUBLIC]

            6. Yòu 右 (ant. qīng 輕 "have no special respect for") refer to giving high practical priority to something or someone out of a sense of admiration or appreciation.

            [ACTIVITY], [ASCENDING], [OVERT], [PUBLIC]

            7. Měi 美 (ant. è 惡 "find despicable an dislikable") refers to an intense expressly subjective aesthetic or moral appreciation for something as admirable.

            [COVERT], [STATE], [SUBJECTIVE]

            8. Duō 多 (ant. shǎo 少 "feel no respect for") refers to an objective assessment of something as worthy of admiration.

            [COVERT], [OBJECTIVE], [RATIONAL], [STATE]

            9. Xiàn 羨 refers to rather personal and private admiration for something, and this admiration is sometimes mixed with envy.

            [COVERT], [EMOTIONAL], [STATE], [SUBJECTIVE]

          • LIFT

            1. The most general and the most current word for lifting up anything, in literal as well as figurative senses is jǔ 舉.

            2. Jiē 揭 refers to the lifting up or raising of something light like clothes or a banner.

            3. Qíng 擎 refers to the lifting up of something with considerable effort.

            4. Gāng 扛 refers to the lifting up of something as a feat of strength.

            5. Shè 攝 and the rarer xī 扱 refer specifically to the lifting up of one's clothes or one's dress to avoid soiling them or stepping on them.

            6. Yǎng 仰 can be used to refer specifically to the raising of one's head. See LOOK UP