陽

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 阜 + phonetic 昜

Han character

陽 (radical 170 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中日一竹 (NLAMH), four-corner 7622₇, composition ⿰阝昜)

1. 'male' principle: yang
2. light
3. sun

References

• KangXi: page 1355, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41725
• Dae Jaweon: page 1859, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4144, character 3
• Unihan data for U+967D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

陽 (simplified 阳, jyutping joeng4, Yale yeung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

陽 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: ひ (hi), いつわる (itsuwaru)

Compounds

• 陽炎: lit. "kagerou" -- 'heat haze'
• 陽気: lit. "comfortable or warm weather, cheerfulness, hilariousness"
• 陽極: lit. an "anode" -- the positive terminal of a pole; the plus terminal of a battery. (See 電気 'electricity'.)
• 陽光: lit. "sunshine"
• 陽性: lit. "positive"
• 陽暦: lit. a "memorial"
• 太陽: lit. the "sun, solar"
• 陽子 (ようし, yōshi): lit. a "yang 'particle'," a proton

Synonyms

• 昜, 阳, 阝, 昜

Antonyms

• 陰: lit. yin

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

陽 (simplified 阳, pinyin yáng (yang2), xiá (xia2), Wade-Giles yang², hsia²)

Compounds

• 陽平
• 陽電
• 陽世
• 陽上
• 陽曆
• 陽光
• 陽氣
• 陽去

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Vietnamese

Han character

陽 (dương, dàng, giang)

Compounds

• dương lịch (陽曆)