yang

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

• Yang

• enPR: yăng, IPA^(key): /jæŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

yang (uncountable)

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

• (complement): yin
• (unity): yin-yang
• MONOGRAM FOR YANG ⚊

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

yang (plural yangs)

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

Imitative.

• Rhymes: -æŋ

yang (third-person singular simple present yangs, present participle yanging, simple past and past participle yanged)

1. (rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
   • 1902, Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl

     Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.

   • 1957, Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899

     Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.

yang (plural yangs)

1. The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
   • 1867, Gail Hamilton, Wool-gathering‎, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 185:

     Hangs is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect yang, — an onomatopœian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose.

From Mandarin.

• IPA^(key): /jɑ̃ɡ/

yang m (uncountable)

1. yang

• “yang” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Malay yang.

yang

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

yang

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /iaŋ/
• Rhymes: -iaŋ, -jaŋ, -aŋ

From hiang, from Proto-Malayic *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiaŋ, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiaŋ, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *hiaŋ, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qiaŋ.

• hiang
• yang-yang
• هياڠ‎
• يڠ‎
• يڠ٢‎

yang (Jawi spelling يڠ, used only in the form yang-yang)

1. Alternative form of hiang

• tuhan / توهن‎
• dewa m / ديوا‎ m, dewi f / ديوي‎ f
• ilah / اله‎

• يڠ‎

yang (Jawi spelling يڠ)

1. which ((relative) who, whom, what)

yang (Jawi spelling يڠ)

1. one (impersonal pronoun)

yang

1. Nonstandard spelling of yāng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yáng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǎng.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yàng.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɑŋ]

yang

1. wind

• Phonological Descriptions of Papua New Guinea Languages (2005, SIL, edited by Steve Parker), section Mato (Nenaya, Nengaya, Nineia) Language, page 28: yang [ˈjɑŋ] 'wind'