洋

洋 (radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水廿手 (ETQ), four-corner 3815₁, composition ⿰氵羊)

• KangXi: page 619, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17363
• Dae Jaweon: page 1014, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1615, character 11
• Unihan data for U+6D0B

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljaŋ, *laŋ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 羊 (OC *laŋ).

“Multitudinous; vast; ocean”

Schuessler (2007) compares it with Tibetan ཡངས་པ (yangs pa, “wide; extensive; vast; spacious”). In contrast, Starostin sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lɨ̆ŋ (“wave”), encompassing this and Tibetan ཀློང (klong, “space; expanse; wave”), Burmese လှိုင်း (hluing:, “wave; to abound; plentiful”).

Compare 羕 (OC *laŋs, “(of rivers) long”), 漾 (OC *laŋs, “waves; (of rivers) long”).

洋

1. Name of a river in southern Shaanxi.
2. multitudinous; vast
3. ocean; vast area of sea; great expanse of water
4. overseas; foreign; western; imported
5. modern; stylish; fashionable
6. novel; unusual
7. (historical) foreign money; dollar
8. (Min) vast expanse of flat land
9. A surname​.

洋

1. ^† Alternative form of 翔 (xiáng, “to soar; wing; side”).
2. ^† Alternative form of 祥 (xiáng, “good fortune; to bless”).
3. ^† Alternative form of 祥 (xiáng, “gentle; tender”).
4. ^† Alternative name for 彌河／弥河 (“Mi River in Shandong”).
5. ^† (～州) Yang Prefecture (ancient prefecture in Shaanxi)

洋

1. ^† Only used in 洋洋, alternative form of 養養／养养 (yǎngyǎng, “worried; anxious”).

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. ocean
2. foreign country
3. the West
4. vast, wide

From Middle Chinese 洋 (MC jɨɐŋ, “ocean, West”):

• Go-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 洋 (MC zɨɐŋ, “Mi River”):

• Go-on: ぞう (zō)^{←ざう (zau, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}

Native Japanese readings:

• Kun: なだ (nada, 洋)
• Nanori: あきら (akira); うみ (umi); おおみ (ōmi)^{←おほみ (ofomi, historical)}; きよ (kiyo); なみ (nami); はるか (haruka); ひろ (hiro); ひろし (hiroshi); ひろみ (hiromi); ひろむ (hiromu); ふかし (fukashi); み (mi); ゆたか (yutaka); わたる (wataru)

/jɨau/ → /jɔː/ → /joː/

From Middle Chinese 洋 (MC jɨɐŋ). Compare modern Mandarin 洋 (yáng).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) よ​ー [yóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [jo̞ː]

洋 (hiragana よう, rōmaji yō, historical hiragana やう)

1. an ocean
2. (by extension, from the sense of across the ocean) the East (Orient) or especially the West (Occident)

• 洋 (よう)の東 (とう)西 (ざい)を問 (と)わず (yō no tōzai o towazu): “regardless of east or west of the ocean” → in either the East or the West → anywhere in the world, all over the world

洋 (hiragana よう, rōmaji Yō, historical hiragana やう)

1. a surname
2. a male or female given name

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) な​だ [náꜜdà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [na̠da̠]

• 灘

洋 (hiragana なだ, rōmaji nada)

1. Alternative spelling of 灘 (nada): the open sea

洋 (hiragana なだ, rōmaji Nada)

1. a surname

Nominalization of the 終止形 (shūshikei, “terminal form”) of classical adjective 広し (hiroshi), modern 広い (hiroi, “vast, wide”).

• (Irregular reading)
  • IPA^(key): [çiɾo̞ɕi]

洋 (hiragana ひろし, rōmaji Hiroshi)

1. a surname
2. a male or female given name

洋 • (yang) (hangeul 양)

1. ocean
2. western (西洋)

• 서양 (seoyang) (西洋) the West (Europe, America)
• 동양 (dong-yang) (東洋) the East, the Orient (Asia)
• 양식 (yangsik) (洋式) western style
• 양식 (yangsik) (洋食) western food
• 태평양 (taepyeong-yang) (太平洋) the Pacific
• 대서양 (daeseoyang) (大西洋) the Atlantic
• 인도양 (indoyang) (印度洋) the Indian Ocean
• 해양 (haeyang) (海洋) ocean, sea
• 양말 (yangmal) (洋襪) socks
• 양복 (yangbok) (洋服) suit
• 원양 (wonyang) (遠洋) far sea, deep sea

洋 (dương)

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