| 昂首挺胸 | áng shǒu tǐng xiōng | head high, chest out (idiom); to keep up one's spirits / in fine mettle (of animal) | 
| 昂 | áng | to lift / to raise / to raise one's head / high / high spirits / soaring / expensive | 
| 昂首 | áng shǒu | head high / in high spirits / to raise one's head (e.g. of neighing horse) | 
| 首 | shǒu | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc | 
| 挺 | tǐng | straight / erect / to stick out (a part of the body) / to (physically) straighten up / to support / to withstand / outstanding / (coll.) quite / very / classifier for machine guns | 
| 胸 | xiōng | variant of 胸 | 
| 胸 | xiōng | chest / bosom / heart / mind / thorax |