yáng
ocean
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 羊 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ɢ(r)aŋ | yang | yáng | 'great expanse of water' |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 18.3405% of movies
1449th most common character in movies
803rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6D0B |
Shuowen | “洋,水。出齊臨朐高山,東北入鉅定。从水,羊聲。” |
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