陰陽

Japanese

Kanji in this term
陰	陽

Noun

陰陽 (hiragana いんよう, romaji in'yō)

陰陽 (hiragana おんよう, romaji on'yō)

陰陽 (hiragana おんみょう, romaji ommyō)

1. yin-yang, (Yin and Yang)

See also

• 陰陽師 (in'yōji, on'yōji or Onmyōji) lit. "Yin-Yang Master/Teacher"
• 陰陽道 (おんみょうどう, onmyōdō) lit. "The Way of Yin & Yang"

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Mandarin

simpl.		阴阳
trad.		陰陽

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ in˥˥jaŋ˧˥ ]
• Pinyin: yīnyáng

Etymology

• Root meaning: moonlight (dark) and sunlight (light). Yin later came to be associated with female, negative etc. Yang later came to be associated with male, positive etc.
• c. 479 BCE - 221 BCE: Confucius, 周易/繫辭上#第五章 (Zhou Yi, Appended Words Part one, Chapter five)

  陰陽不測之謂神

  That which can not be measured (in straight forward terms such as) black and white (bad and good; negative and positive etc.) is called mysterious (or divine)

Noun

陰陽 (traditional, Pinyin yīnyáng, simplified 阴阳)

1. negative and positive; yin and yang; yin-yang; ☯

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• (Quanzhou, Xiamen) IPA: [ɪm˧˧iɔŋ˧˥]
• (Zhangzhou:) IPA: [ ɪm˧˧iaŋ˧˥ ]

Noun

陰陽 (traditional, POJ im-iông or im-iâng, simplified 阴阳)

1. negative and positive; yin and yang; yin-yang; ☯