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. sheep, goat
2. KangXi radical 123

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/羊
• 洋 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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Cantonese

Hanzi

羊 (Jyutping joeng4, Yale yeung4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

羊 (POJ yông, Guangdong jong²; zong² [Hailu], Hagfa Pinyim yong2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Noun

羊 (hiragana ひつじ, katakana ヒツジ, romaji hitsuji)

1. sheep

Kanji

羊

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: ひつじ (hitsuji)

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Korean

Hanja

羊 (yang)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 양()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

羊 (Pinyin yáng (yang2), Wade-Giles yang²)

Noun

羊 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yáng)

1. sheep, goat, antelope

Proper noun

羊 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yáng)

1. A surname​.

Compounds

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

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Middle Chinese

Han character

羊 (iɑng)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

羊 (TLPA iông (iong⁵), iûnn (iunn⁵))

References

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

羊 (dương)