yáng
bright
Original meaning:
sunshine
Depicts rays (彡) of sunlight (日) shining through tree branches (丂).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Unknown component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*laŋ | yang | yáng | bright |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+661C |
Shuowen | “昜,開也。一曰飛揚,一曰長也,一曰彊者眾皃。” |
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