HSK 6 · Verbs

瞻仰 zhānyǎng “to look up to with reverence” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 瞻仰 means

  1. to look up to with reverence
  2. to pay respects (to)
  3. to revere
  4. to admire

How to say 瞻仰

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale瞻zhān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale仰yǎng3rd tone, dipping

瞻仰 in a sentence

  1. 游客们在故居里瞻仰这位作家用过的书桌。

    Yóukèmen zài gùjū lǐ zhānyǎng zhè wèi zuòjiā yòng guo de shūzhuō.

    In the former residence, visitors look respectfully at the desk the writer used.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我们去瞻仰了这位伟大科学家的雕像。

    Wǒmen qù zhānyǎng le zhè wèi wěidà kēxuéjiā de diāoxiàng.

    We went to pay our respects at the statue of this great scientist.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 瞻仰 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 瞻 (zhān) with each of its parts in a different colour
瞻zhānto gaze
  • 目eye · mùMeaning part
  • 詹talkative · zhānSound part

目 hints at the meaning (eye); 詹 (zhān) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhān.

The character 仰 (yǎng) with each of its parts in a different colour
仰yǎngto face upward
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 卬lofty · áng

How to write 瞻仰

瞻 18 strokes · 仰 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

瞻仰 (zhānyǎng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 瞻仰 (zhānyǎng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 瞻仰

Words with 仰

信仰xìnyǎng · belief

More words: Common Verbs

扎zhā · to prick占据zhànjù · to occupy展示zhǎnshì · to display展现zhǎnxiàn · to show折zhé · to break遮挡zhēdǎng · to block折磨zhémo · to torment争夺zhēngduó · to fight over

FAQs

瞻仰 (zhānyǎng) means “to look up to with reverence” or “to pay respects (to)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhānyǎng: zhān with a 1st tone, then yǎng with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 瞻仰 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhanyang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 瞻仰 from the suggestions. Typing zhanyang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
瞻仰 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.