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揚

yáng

raise, praise

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

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

昜 sound component

昜  Sound component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

揚 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
揚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

扬 (揚) 

yáng

scatter, spread; praise; to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate

扬 (揚) 

Yáng

abbr. for 揚州|扬州[Yáng​zhōu]; surname Yang

Most common words with 揚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扬

to raise

表扬

to praise

赞扬

to praise

发扬

to develop

宣扬

to proclaim

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*laŋ

yang

yáng

raise


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.7045% of movies

1737th most common character in movies

1084th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

扬

Unicode

U+63DA

Shuowen

“揚，飛舉也。从手，易聲。，古文。”


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