Chinese Character Wiki
陽

yáng

light

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

昜 sound,meaning component

昜  Sound Meaning component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

陽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
陽 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
陽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
陽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
陽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

阳 (陽) 

yáng

'male' principle; light; sun; positive (electric.); male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yīn]

Most common words with 陽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

太阳

sun

阳光

sunshine

阳

sun

阳性

positive

阳台

balcony

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*laŋ

yang

yáng

bright


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 32.5965% of movies

1075th most common character in movies

650th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

阳

Unicode

U+967D

Shuowen

“陽，高明也。从，昜聲。”


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