Meanings
- face-up
- look up
- depend
- seek
- respect
- revere
- drink
- take
Strokes6
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1573 of 2,500
Kanji N1
仰: face-up, look up, depend
仰 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning face-up, look up, depend, written with 6 strokes. It is read ギョウ, コウ (on) and あおぐ, おおせ, おっしゃる (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 信仰 (しんこう, faith) and 仰ぐ (あおぐ, to look up).
仰
On reading · Kun reading
On reading
- ギョウ
- コウ
On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.
Kun reading
- あおぐ
- おおせ
- おっしゃる
- おっしゃる
Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.
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Common words with 仰
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- JLPT N3
- 仰ぐあおぐJLPT N1
to look up (at)
- 仰るおっしゃるJLPT N4
to say; to speak; to tell
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