yang

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

English

Etymology 1

From early romanizations of Chinese 陽／阳 (yáng), originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings

Alternative forms

• Yang

Pronunciation

• enPR: yăng, IPA^(key): /jæŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

yang (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187:

     "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"

Related terms

• (complement): yin
• (unity): yin-yang
• MONOGRAM FOR YANG ⚊

Translations

essential male principle

• Chinese:

  Dungan: ён (i͡on)

  Mandarin: 陽／阳 (zh) (yáng), 阳 (zh) (yáng)

• German: Yang (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 陽 (ja) (よう, yō)
• Korean: 양 (ko) (yang) (陽 (ko))
• Russian: ян (ru) m or n (jan)
• Vietnamese: dương (vi) (陽)

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Korean 양 (兩, yang, “yang, tael”).

Noun

yang (plural yangs)

1. The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 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.
   • 1867, Gail Hamilton, Wool-gathering‎^[1], Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 185:

     Hangs is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect yang, — an onomatopœian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose.

Anagrams

• Nagy

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑ̃ɡ/

Noun

yang m (uncountable)

1. yang

Further reading

• “yang”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Malay yang.

Conjunction

yang

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

Pronoun

yang

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

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Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iaŋ/
• Rhymes: -iaŋ, -jaŋ, -aŋ

Etymology 1

From hiang, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayic *hiaŋ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiaŋ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiaŋ, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *hiaŋ, from (Western) (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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Mato

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɑŋ]

Noun

yang

1. wind

References

• Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005, SIL, edited by Steve Parker), section Mato (Nenaya, Nengaya, Nineia) Language, page 28: yang [ˈjɑŋ] 'wind'

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Miskito

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaŋ/

Pronoun

yang

1. I

See also

Miskito personal pronouns

		Singular	Plural
First	inclusive		yawan
	exclusive	yang	yang nani
Second		man	man nani
Third		witin	witin nani