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阳

yáng

HSK 3 Character Traditional 陽

What 阳 means

1. positive (electric.)
2. sun
3. male principle (Taoism)
4. Yang, opposite: {阴|yīn}

Example sentences

• 夕阳西下。
  Xīyángxīxià.
  The sun is going down.
• 我在阳台上。
  I'm on the balcony.
• 太阳下山了。
  The sun is going down.
• 太阳刚下山。
  The sun has just sunk below the horizon.
• 我是阴阳人。
  I'm intersex.
• 太阳出来了。
  Sunshine appeared.

Words starting with 阳

• 阳光yáng guāngsunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic; transparent (open to public scrutiny)
• 阳台yáng táibalcony; porch
• 阳性yáng xìngpositive; masculine
• 阳刚yáng gāngmanly; masculine
• 阳历yáng lìsolar calendar; Western (Gregorian) calendar
• 阳春yáng chūnmild spring weather
• 阳痿yáng wěi(medicine) impotence
• 阳关Yáng guānYangguan or Southern Pass on the south Silk Road in Gansu, 70 km south of Dunhuang 敦煌
• 阳世yáng shìworld of the living
• 阳具yáng jùpenis
• 阳宗yáng zōng(archaic) the sun
• 阳平yáng píngevenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua
• 阳文yáng wéncharacters cut in relief
• 阳极yáng jíanode; positive electrode; positive pole
• 阳物yáng wùpenis
• 阳道yáng dàopenis
• 阳间yáng jiānthe world of the living
• 阳电yáng diànpositive electric charge
• 阳世间yáng shì jiānthe world of the living
• 阳光房yáng guāng fángsunroom
• 阳光浴yáng guāng yùsunbathing
• 阳平声yáng píng shēngevenly rising tone, the second tone of putonghua
• 阳明区Yáng míng QūYangming, a district of Mudanjiang City 牡丹江市
• 阳明山Yáng míng ShānMt Yangming in Hunan; Mt Yangming in north Taiwan, near Taibei

Words containing 阳

• 太阳tài yangsun; sunlight; sunshine; temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太阳穴
• 夕阳xī yángsunset; the setting sun
• 重阳节Chóng yáng jiéDouble Ninth or Yang Festival; 9th day of 9th lunar month
• 朝阳区Cháo yáng QūChaoyang, an inner district of Beijing; Chaoyang, a district of Changchun City 长春市…
• 赵紫阳Zhào Zǐ yángZhao Ziyang (1919-2005), PRC reforming politician, general secretary of Chinese Communist…
• 阴阳yīn yángyin and yang
• 欧阳Ōu yángtwo-character surname Ouyang
• 晒太阳shài tài yángto be in the sun (getting warm or sunbathing etc); to put sth in the sun (e.g. to dry it)
• 沈阳市Shěn yáng ShìShenyang, sub-provincial city and capital of Liaoning Province 辽宁省
• 向阳xiàng yángfacing the sun; exposed to the sun
• 太阳能tài yáng néngsolar energy
• 太阳穴tài yáng xuétemple (on the sides of human head)
• 重阳Chóng yángDouble Ninth or Yang Festival; 9th day of 9th lunar month
• 斜阳xié yángsetting sun
• 太阳光tài yáng guāngsunlight
• 朝阳cháo yángto be exposed to the sun; in a position facing the sun
• 夕阳西下xī yáng xī xiàthe sun sets in the west (idiom)
• 太阳镜tài yáng jìngsunglasses
• 骄阳jiāo yángblazing sun
• 太阳系tài yáng xìsolar system
• 高阳Gāo YángGao Yang (1926-1992), Taiwanese historical novelist
• 朝阳门Cháo yáng ménChaoyangmen neighborhood of Beijing
• 阴差阳错yīn chā yáng cuò(idiom) due to an unexpected turn of events
• 王阳明Wáng Yáng míngWang Yangming (1472-1529), Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, influential in the…

Characters built on 日

These share the phonetic component 日 (rì), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 昂ángto lift; to raise; to raise one's head
• 旺wàngprosperous; flourishing; (of flowers) blooming
• 昌chāng(bound form) prosperous; flourishing
• 昶chǎng(of the day) long; old variant of 畅
• 晌shǎngpart of the day; midday
• 昜yángold variant of 阳
• 昉fǎngdawn; to begin
• 曩nǎngin former times

Characters that look like 阳

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 阿āprefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity…
• 附fùto add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
• 即jínamely; that is; i.e.
• 印yìnto print; to mark; to engrave
• 邦bāng(bound form) country; nation; state
• 邱Qiūsurname Qiu

Sounds the same

Read yáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 羊sheep; goat
• 洋ocean; vast; foreign
• 扬to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing
• 杨poplar
• 佯to feign; to pretend
• 炀molten; smelt
• 疡ulcers; sores
• 烊molten; smelt
• 徉to walk back and forth
• 旸rising sun; sunshine
• 飏to soar; to fly; to float
• 垟clay sheep buried with the dead