yangs

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

Noun (2)

yang (plural yangs)

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

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

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