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Face upward in Chinese

to face upward · HSK 6

仰 yǎng

他仰着头看天上的星星。 He tilted his head back to look at the stars in the sky.

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How do you say face upward in Chinese?

Face upward in Chinese is 仰 (yǎng).

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