昂首

昂

áng

首

shǒu

head high / in high spirits / to raise one's head (e.g. of neighing horse)

Characters and words in 昂首

昂

áng = Ø + ang2

to lift / to raise / to raise one's head / high / high spirits / soaring / expensive

昂 = 卬 + 日 : Erich Honecker (卬) lifts (昂) the sun (日) right over the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). To reach up high enough, he in turn is lifted up (昂) by Albert Einstein (Ø).

首

shǒu = sh + ou3

head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

首 = 䒑 + 自 : In the outhouse, the chief lends his piece pipe to Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock smokes some weed in the pipe and looks at himself in a hand mirror, thinking that he's uber cool and that he'd pass as a quite formidable chief himself.