瞻仰
zhān yǎng · HSK 7
to admire
🙏 瞻 gaze up + 仰 look up = both eyes lifted high, the posture of reverence
Both characters mean looking upward: 瞻 is to gaze, 仰 is to raise the head. Stack two upward looks and you get 瞻仰 — to look up to someone with admiration, the way you crane your neck at a monument or a hero.
仰 — person radical 亻 + 卬 (phonetic)
仰 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The 亻 (person) radical gives the meaning, while 卬 supplies the sound; 卬 itself originally depicted one person standing and another kneeling looking up, so it also reinforces the sense. The character means to look up, and by extension to admire or rely on.