yang

See also Yang, yāng, yáng, yǎng, and yàng

English

Etymology 1

From Chinese 陽 ("sun, bright, living, male").

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

yang (plural yangs)

1. The essential male principle in eastern religion or philosophy.

Antonyms

• yin

Related terms

• yin-yang

Translations

essential male principle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽 (cmn), 阳 (cmn) (yáng)

• German: Yang (de) n
• Japanese: 陽 (ja) (よう, yō)

• Korean: 양 (ko) (yang) (陽 (ko))
• Russian: ян (ru) (jan) m and n 
• Vietnamese: dương (vi) (陽 (vi))

Etymology 2

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

Noun

yang (plural yangs)

1. The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided 100 pun.

Etymology 3

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋ

Verb

yang (third-person singular simple present yangs, present participle yanging, simple past and past participle yanged)

1. (rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
   • 1902, Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl

     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.

   • 1957, Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899

     Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.

Noun

yang (plural yangs)

1. The cry of the wild goose; a honk.

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French

Etymology

From Mandarin

Noun

yang m (usually uncountable)

1. yang

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay yang.

Conjunction

yang

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

Pronoun

yang

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

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Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA: /iaŋ/
• Rhymes: -iaŋ, -jaŋ, -aŋ

Etymology 1

From hiang, from Proto-Malayic *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiaŋ, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *hiaŋ, from Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian *qiaŋ.

Alternative forms

• hiang
• yang-yang
• هياڠ
• يڠ
• يڠ٢

Noun

yang (Jawi spelling يڠ, used only in the form yang-yang)

1. Alternative form of hiang.

Synonyms

• tuhan / توهن
• dewa m / ديوا m / dewi f / ديوي f
• ilah / اله

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• يڠ

Conjunction

yang (Jawi spelling يڠ)

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

Pronoun

yang (Jawi spelling يڠ)

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

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Mandarin

Romanization

yang

1. Nonstandard spelling of yāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yáng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǎng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yàng.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.