The story of 卬

raise, lift up

卬 depicts a man kneeling down(卬) in front of another man, the kneeling man need to raise his head in order to look up at another man, so 卬 has the meaning of raising one’s head and looking up, but these two meanings has been replaced by 昂 and 仰, so we seldom use 卬.

Vocabulary of 卬

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