yang

Noun (1)

yang (uncountable)

1. A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.
   • "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 187
   • The performance was unmistakably male and gay. The rousing lion dance that capped their performance provided the right touch of "yang" without destroying the distinct feel of something gay, Asian and new.1985 August 17, S. H. Chua, “IGA Smashes Borders”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 10

Noun (2)

yang (plural yangs)

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

Verb

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.
   • 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.1902, Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl
   • 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.1957, Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899

Noun (3)

yang (plural yangs)

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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Yang

IPA/jæŋ/

Yang

1. (Chinese) Alternative letter-case form of yang when used as a proper noun.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Yang

IPA/jæŋ/

Yang

1. A surname from Chinese of various origins.
2. A surname from Korean of various origins.
3. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • 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.1988, Robin D. S. Yates, Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123
   • 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.[1992, Shunwu Zhou, “Shaanxi Province”, in China Provincial Geography [中国分省地理], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 417