Yang
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See yang.
Proper noun
Yang
- (Chinese philosophy) Alternative letter-case form of yang when used as a proper noun.
Etymology 2
From various atonal romanizations of various Chinese characters, including 楊／杨 (yáng, “Willow”) and 洋 (a river name).
Proper noun
Yang
- A surname from Chinese of various origins.
- A surname from Korean of various origins.
- A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
- 1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:
- Liang and Yang were the names of two commanderies to the southwest of Ch'ang-an; Yang is the modern Yang county, Shensi, and Liang, the administrative center of Shan-nan West circuit, also known as Hsing-yuan, on the borders of Shensi and Szechuan.
- , Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 417:
- The well-known Hanzhong Basin, extending from Yangxian to Mianxian, about 80 kilometres from east to west and 10 to 15 kilometres from north to south, is a major farming area.]
- 2014 October 11, WU NAN, “Breastfed baby gets drunk; Grandpa kills child smuggler”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 12 October 2014:
- A male vegetable seller killed a female hawker in a fight over space at a farmer's market in Yang county, near Hanzhong , Huashang Daily reports.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yang.
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Yang is the 290th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 106,033 individuals. Yang is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.8%) individuals.
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yang Xian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3513, column 2
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Noun
Yang n (strong, genitive Yangs or Yang, no plural)
Declension
Declension of Yang
Further reading
- “Yang” in Duden online
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 楊／杨 (yáng). Doublet of Yu, Young, and Yung.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Yang (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜅ᜔)
- a Chinese surname from Mandarin