Yang

• enPR: yăng, IPA^(key): /jæŋ/

See yang.

Yang

1. (Chinese philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of yang when used as a proper noun.

From various atonal romanizations of various Chinese characters, including 楊／杨 (yáng, “Willow”) and 洋 (“a river name”).

Yang

1. A surname from Chinese of various origins.
2. A surname from Korean of various origins.
3. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910)‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:

     Liang and Yang were the names of two commanderies to the southwest of Ch'ang-an; Yang is the modern Yang county, Shensi, and Liang, the administrative center of Shan-nan West circuit, also known as Hsing-yuan, on the borders of Shensi and Szechuan.

   • [1992, Shunwu Zhou, “Shaanxi Province”, in China Provincial Geography [中国分省地理]‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 417:

     The well-known Hanzhong Basin, extending from Yangxian to Mianxian, about 80 kilometres from east to west and 10 to 15 kilometres from north to south, is a major farming area.]

   • 2014 October 11, WU NAN, “Breastfed baby gets drunk; Grandpa kills child smuggler”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 12 October 2014:

     A male vegetable seller killed a female hawker in a fight over space at a farmer's market in Yang county, near Hanzhong , Huashang Daily reports.

   • 2021 April 15, “Best destinations to view flowers in southern Shaanxi”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 15 April 2021:

     2 Yang county, Hanzhong city
     Yang county has been famous for its cole flowers since ancient times. The place is known as “the heaven of cole flowers”. Besides, there is also a wheat field here, which creates a unique blend of half-green and half-yellow scenery.
     Travel guide: Train-Xi'an North Station → Yangxian West Station (Around 1 hour)
     Tips: Except for cole flowers, the pear flowers bloom at the same time in Yang county. Last but not least, you can see the exclusive crested ibises here!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yang.

• Norrish-Yang reaction
• Yang-Baxter equation

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Yang is the 290^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 106,033 individuals. Yang is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.8%) individuals.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yang Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3513, column 2

• Nagy

• IPA^(key): [jaŋ]

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

Yang n (strong, genitive Yangs or Yang, no plural)

1. yang

• “Yang” in Duden online

Borrowed from Mandarin 楊／杨 (yáng). Doublet of Yu, Young, and Yung.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjaŋ/ [ˈjaŋ]
• Rhymes: -aŋ
• Syllabification: Yang
• Homophone: Young

Yang (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜅ᜔)

1. a Chinese surname from Mandarin