Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable)A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.

    Yang

    янjan

    янjan

    the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology

  2. The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 100 pun.

  3. The cry of the wild goose; a honk.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The yin is dark, while the yang bright.

    Їнь - темне, а Ян - світле.

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  2. The yin is feminine and the yang is masculine.

    Їнь - то жіноче, а ян - чоловіче.

    ruИнь — женское начало, а ян — мужское.

    deDas Yin ist weiblich, und das Yang ist männlich.

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  3. The opposites yin and yang pursue each other through time.

    deDie Gegensätze - Yin und Yang - streben nacheinander bis ans Ende der Zeit.

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  4. The Yin and the Yang are complementary rather than opposite forces.

    Їнь та Ян - взаємодоповнюючі, а не протидійні сили.

    ruИнь и Ян - скорее дополняющие друг друга, чем противоположные силы.

    deYing und Yang sind eher einander ergänzende als entgegengesetzte Kräfte.

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  5. Yang doesn't like my friend.

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Translations

3 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
essential male principle:
Русский
By meaning 1
essential male principle:
Deutsch
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essential male principle:

Origin

From early romanizations of Chinese 陽/阳 (yáng), originally in reference to the sunny side

From early romanizations of Chinese 陽/阳 (yáng), originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings.

From Korean 양(兩) (yang, “yang, tael”). Doublet of liang.

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Forms

plural: yangs
Singularyang

uncountable

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
yang — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto