羊

§Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

§Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) Picture of a sheep head.

§Han character

羊 (radical 123 羊+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿手 (TQ), four-corner 8050₁)

1. KangXi radical 123

§Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/羊
• 佯 徉 洋 垟 咩 鮮 詳 𡱝

§See also

• 羔

§References

• KangXi: page 950, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3125, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F8A

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§Chinese

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simp. and trad.		羊

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáng (yang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joeng⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yông
• Min Nan (POJ): iûⁿ / iông
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hhian (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yáng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yang
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑŋ³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: joeng⁴
    • Yale: yèuhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joeng⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jœːŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yông
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /joŋ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iûⁿ / iông
    • Tâi-lô: iûnn / iông
    • IPA (Taipei): /iũ²³/, /iɔŋ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iũ¹³/, /iɔŋ¹³/
  • Note: iûⁿ - vernacular, iông - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hhian (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦiã²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (羊, reconstructed)
Character (羊), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 陽 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 與章切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨɐŋ/	/i̯aŋ/	/iaŋ/	/jiɐŋ/	/jɨaŋ/	/jĭaŋ/	/iɑŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (羊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
羊								yáng								‹ yang ›								/*ɢaŋ/								sheep
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
羊					14535					羊					陽					0					陽					/*laŋ/

§Definitions

羊

1. caprid, eg. sheep, goat, antelope
2. A surname​.

§Compounds

Derived terms

綿羊, 绵羊 (miányáng, sheep) 山羊 (shānyáng, goat) 羚羊 (shānyáng, antelope) 公羊 (gōngyáng, ram) 母羊 (mǔyáng, ewe)

§References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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§Japanese

Kanji in this term

羊

ひつじ Grade: 3

kun'yomi

§Kanji

羊

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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§Noun

羊 (hiragana ひつじ, alternative reading ヒツジ, romaji hitsuji)

1. sheep

§Readings

• Goon: よう (yō), じょう (jō)
• Kan’on: よう (yō), しょう (shō)
• Kun: ひつじ (hitsuji)

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§Korean

§Hanja

羊 (yang)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 양 (McCune-Reischauer: yang, Yale: yang)

• Name (hangeul): 양()

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

羊 (dương)

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