楊

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See also: 杨
楊 U+694A, 楊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-694A
← 楉
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 楋 →

Translingual

Han character

楊 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木日一竹 (DAMH), four-corner 46927, composition ⿰木昜)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 538, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15112
  • Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1248, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+694A

Chinese

trad. 楊
simp. 杨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 楊
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
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 木 (“tree, wood”) + phonetic 昜 (OC *laŋ) – a kind of tree.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *glaŋ (“poplar, willow”). Cognate with Tibetan ལྕང་མ (lcang ma, “willow”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • ieo2/iuⁿ2 - vernacular;
  • yong2/yeng2 - literary.
Note:
  • iûⁿ/iôⁿ - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • chhiûⁿ/chhiôⁿ/chhiû/chhiōⁿ - vernacular (in 楊梅／杨梅);
  • iông/iâng - literary.
Note:
  • ion5/iên5 - vernacular;
  • iang5 - literary.
Rime
Character 楊
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yáng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		joeng4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 楊
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yáng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*laŋ/
English poplar

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 楊
Reading # 1/1
No. 14591
Phonetic
component 		昜
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		陽
Old
Chinese 		/*laŋ/

Definitions

楊

  1. poplar; aspen; willow
  2. Used in 楊桃／杨桃 (yángtáo).
  3. Used in 楊梅／杨梅 (yángméi).
  4. a surname, listed sixteenth in the Baijiaxing
    楊堅／杨坚  ―  Yáng Jiān  ―  Yang Jian (Emperor Wen of Sui)
  5. Young (English given name)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (楊):
  • → Vietnamese: dương (楊)

Others:

Japanese

Kanji

楊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: よう (yō)←やう (yau, historical)
  • Kan-on: よう (yō)←やう (yau, historical)
  • Kun: やなぎ (yanagi, 楊)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
楊
よう
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 楊 (MC yang).

Pronunciation

Affix

楊(よう) • (yō) 

  1. willow; poplar; aspen

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
楊
やなぎ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 楊 – see the following entry.
【やなぎ】
柳, 楊, 楊柳: a willow tree
Alternative spellings
柳, 楊柳, ヤナギ
(This term, 楊, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

楊 • (yang) (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune–Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

  1. (버들): willow

Synonyms

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

楊: Hán Nôm readings: dương

  1. chữ Hán form of Dương (“a surname”).
    楊秋香 ― Dương Thu Hương
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