揚

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See also: 扬, 颺, and 飏
揚 U+63DA, 揚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63DA
← 揙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 換 →

Translingual

Han character

揚 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手日一竹 (QAMH), four-corner 56027, composition ⿰扌昜)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 442, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12355
  • Dae Jaweon: page 793, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1914, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+63DA

Chinese

trad. 揚
simp. 扬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
湯 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *hljaŋ
踼 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋʔ, *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
蝪 *l̥ʰaːŋ
薚 *l̥ʰaːŋ
簜 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l'aːŋʔ
盪 *l̥ʰaːŋ, *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
偒 *l̥ʰaːŋʔ
蕩 *l̥ʰaːŋs, *l'aːŋʔ
燙 *l̥ʰaːŋs
啺 *l'aːŋ
碭 *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs
婸 *l'aːŋʔ
愓 *l'aːŋʔ
璗 *l'aːŋʔ
崵 *l'aːŋʔ, *laŋ
逿 *l'aːŋs
暢 *l̥ʰaŋs
畼 *l̥ʰaŋs
腸 *l'aŋ
場 *l'aŋ
傷 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
殤 *hljaŋ
觴 *hljaŋ
慯 *hljaŋ, *hljaŋs
禓 *hljaŋ, *laŋ
塲 *hljaŋ
陽 *laŋ
楊 *laŋ
揚 *laŋ
瘍 *laŋ
煬 *laŋ, *laŋs
鍚 *laŋ
暘 *laŋ
颺 *laŋ, *laŋs
昜 *laŋ
輰 *laŋ
敭 *laŋ
鰑 *laŋ
諹 *laŋ, *laŋs
瑒 *laŋ, *rlaːŋʔ
鸉 *laŋ
餳 *ljaːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *laŋ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • iông/iâng - literary;
  • chhiûⁿ/chhiôⁿ - vernacular.
Rime
Character 揚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與章切
Baxter yang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/iɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jɨaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/iaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/jĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yáng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		joeng4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 揚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yáng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*laŋ/
English raise

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 揚
Reading # 1/1
No. 14592
Phonetic
component 		昜
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		陽
Old
Chinese 		/*laŋ/
Notes 金文象人雙手舉玉加昜聲

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *laŋ (“to lift; to raise”) (Schuessler (2007), STEDT), whence Tibetan ལང (lang, “to rise”), Burmese လင့်စင် (lang.cang, “elevated watchtower or lifted platform”).

Definitions

揚

  1. to lift; to raise; to hoist
    揚手／扬手  ―  yángshǒu  ―  to raise one's hand
    揚鞭／扬鞭  ―  yángbiān  ―  to raise a whip
  2. to flutter (in the air)
    飄揚／飘扬  ―  piāoyáng  ―  to flutter
  3. to throw up and scatter (to winnow)
  4. to spread; to make known
    宣揚／宣扬  ―  xuānyáng  ―  to publicize; to propagate
    表揚／表扬  ―  biǎoyáng  ―  to praise
  5. (Cantonese) to publicize; to make widely known
  6. (Cantonese) tending to become known by others; tending to be publicized; obtrusive
  7. Yangzhou
  8. a surname: Yang
Synonyms
  • (to raise):
  • (to spread):

Compounds

Descendants

  • Turkmen: ýaň

Etymology 2

Definitions

揚

  1. A transliteration of the English surname Young

References

Japanese

Kanji

揚

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. raise, elevate, hoist
  2. praise, extol
  3. fry in deep fat

Readings

Derived terms


Kanji in this term
揚
よう
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Affix

揚(よう) • (yō) ←やう (yau)?

  1. to raise; to lift
  2. to make well-known; to spread

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

揚 (eumhun 오를 양 (oreul yang))
揚 (eumhun 날릴 양 (nallil yang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

揚: Hán Nôm readings: dương, dang, dàng, giàng, dâng, duồng, nhàng

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