洋

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 羊

Han character

洋 (radical 85 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水廿手 (ETQ), four-corner 3815₁, composition ⿰氵羊)

1. ocean, sea
2. A (typically male) given name
3. foreign, western, imported

References

• KangXi: page 619, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17363
• Dae Jaweon: page 1014, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1615, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6D0B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

洋 (Yale yeung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

洋 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: よう (yō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: なだ (nada), ひろし (hiroshi)

Proper noun

洋 (hiragana ひろし, romaji Hiroshi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

洋 (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune-Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

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Mandarin

Wikipedia ^cmn

Hanzi

洋 (pinyin yáng (yang2), Yáng (Yang2), Wade-Giles yang², Yang²)

Compounds

• 洋紫荊
• 洋鬼子
• 洋洋

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Middle Chinese

Wikipedia ^lzh

Han character

洋 (iɑng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

洋 (dương)