yáng
light
Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 昜 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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 | |
Unicode | U+967D |
Shuowen | “陽,高明也。从,昜聲。” |
Sources
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