Yang

//jæŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of yang when used as a proper noun. Chinese, alt-of
  2. 2
    A surname from Chinese of various origins.
  3. 3
    A surname from Korean of various origins.
  4. 4
    A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.

    "Liang and Yang were the names of two commanderies to the southwest of Ch'ang-an; Yang is the modern Yang county, Shensi, and Liang, the administrative center of Shan-nan West circuit, also known as Hsing-yuan, on the borders of Shensi and Szechuan."

Noun
  1. 1
    A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world. uncountable

    ""Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?""

  2. 2
    The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 100 pun.
  3. 3
    The cry of the wild goose; a honk.

    "Hangs is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect yang, — an onomatopœian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose."

  4. 4
    the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make the cry of the wild goose. rare

    "Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From early romanizations of Chinese 陽/阳 (yáng), originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings.

Etymology 2

From Korean 양(兩) (yang, “yang, tael”). Doublet of liang.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Etymology 4

Imitative.

Etymology 5

See yang.

Etymology 6

From various atonal romanizations of various Chinese characters, including 楊 /杨 (yáng, “Willow”) and 洋 (a river name).

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