仰 to face upward; look up to or at; respect, revere; to ask for a wish, to command to do; to gulp down, to quaff, drink and swallowing 亻,卬,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ギョウ　･　コウ
GYO　U　･　KO　U

Kun-yomi

あお(ぐ　･　おお(せ　･　お(っしゃる　･　おっしゃ(る
a　o　gu　･　o　o　se　･　o　s　sha　ru　･　o　･　sha　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

亻

× person (male generally), rod head, head on rod

　THE HEAD OF AN ANIMAL OR PERSON and VERTICAL, RECIPROCATING MOTION, ONE'S ROD, STALK OR STEM
　

卬

キョウ,ゴウ,のぞ,な,たか raise up one's body, sudden raising, leaping up, quick v-sits; raise one's head while hollering and excited; extremely alarmed; soaring through the air; expensive, high-priced; I me my, that's mine

　CONCUBINE FULLY BENDING OVER
…or: REPEATED LEG-RAISING with PERSON BENDING OVER
…or: REPEATED BITING by PERSON BENDING OVER
　

Meanings of elements

PERSON and ESTEEMED
…or: PERSON and RAISE ONE'S BODY
…or: PERSON for whom REPEATEDLY RAISE LEGS and BEND OVER
…or: ROD HEAD with HIGH-PRICED

When a「person」who is HIGHLY RESPECTED approaches, in Japan it is customary to stand and「raise up your body」and then to「bow down, bend over」in RESPECT, also when SPEAKING TO A REVERED PERSON.「Looking up at a person」or as「person who raises head while excited soaring through the air. Expensive, high-priced」and meaning TO QUAFF, TO GULP WHILE SWALLOWING, to DRINK IT may refer to reverence and awe, but more likely referred to swallowing while down on one's knees and facing upward as a service offered that was higher-priced, due to the risk involved:「rod head with high-priced, repeatedly bobbing head between teeth and kinky, bending over.」A client ASKING FOR A WISH, or the lord, master, slave owner COMMANDING TO DO.
「Person for whom feet are raised repeatedly, and, bending over」suggests a Chinese service provider performing various actions ON COMMAND of a client, IN RESPECT of his orders. LOOKING UP WITH RESPECT was likely feigned in most of those cases, but served its purpose of flattery and puffing a client's ego, causing repeated visits.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on
Japanese EDRDG: face-up, look up, depend, seek, respect, rever, drink, take
Unihan extended: raise the head to look; look up to, rely on, admire

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.