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lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM)
Long yang village in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai
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  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
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  *氧* | 氧* | *氧
oxygen (chemistry)
HSK 7-9
the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
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  *仰* | 仰* | *仰
surname Yang
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  *仰* | 仰* | *仰
to face upward / to look up / to admire / to rely on
HSK 6
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家
Yang Lan (1968-), Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show hostess
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  *阳* | 阳* | *阳
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴
heaven and earth / yin and yang
diagram of cosmological scheme / Yin-Yang symbol ☯
the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环
Yang Liwei (1965–), the first Chinese astronaut sent into space
first Sui emperor Yang Jian (541-604), reigned 581-604
Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter
Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業|杨业 of warriors
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  *杨* | 杨* | *杨
surname Yang
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  *杨* | 杨* | *杨
poplar
Rainie Yang (1984-), Taiwanese entertainer
(TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive
Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (1922-), theoretical physicist, co-developer of Yang-Mills gauge theory, 1957 Nobel laureate
Emperor Yang of Sui (569-618), said to have murdered his father and brother to seize the throne, reigned 604-618
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  *央* | 央* | *央
center / end / to beg / to plead
lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言
Yang Jiechi (1950-), Chinese politician and diplomat, foreign minister of PRC 2007-2013
Yang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
Mu Guiying, female warrior and heroine of the Yang Saga 楊家將|杨家将
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife
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  *扬* | 扬* | *扬
abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州 in Jiangsu / surname Yang
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to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate
HSK 7-9
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  *阴* | 阴* | *阴
overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia
HSK 2
(TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction
Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist / Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar
Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
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  *鞅* | 鞅* | *鞅
martingale (part of a horse's harness) / used in 鞅鞅
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  *鞅* | 鞅* | *鞅
wooden yoke for a draft ox
Gao Yang (1926-1992), Taiwanese historical novelist
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  *鸯* | 鸯* | *鸯
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  *养* | 养* | *养
to raise (animals) / to bring up (children) / to keep (pets) / to support / to give birth
HSK 2
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝
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  *羊* | 羊* | *羊
surname Yang
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  *羊* | 羊* | *羊
sheep; goat / CL: 頭|头, 隻|只
HSK 3
Yang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet
Yang Yuhuan, aka Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃 (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗
the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王
Yang Zhu (c. 440-360 BC), Chinese philosopher advocating ethical egoism
Yang Ningshi (873-954) calligrapher of the Five Dynasties period
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  *疡* | 疡* | *疡
ulcers / sores
Yang Ye (died 986), Chinese military general of the Northern Han and the Northern Song dynasties, defended the Song against invasion by the Liao 遼|辽
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
yin and yang
a deal where the parties collude to sign an under-the-table "yin contract" 陰合同|阴合同 as well as an ostensibly genuine "yang contract" 陽合同|阳合同 in order to deceive authorities
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  *痒* | 痒* | *痒
to itch / to tickle
HSK 7-9
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  *秧* | 秧* | *秧
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) to raise; to cultivate (plants or animals)
Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)
Yang Chengzhong (1913-1987), Chinese nuclear physicist
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  *瀁* | 瀁* | *瀁
ripples
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
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  *鉠* | 鉠* | *鉠
(onom.) ring / tinkle
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  *钖* | 钖* | *钖
ornaments on headstall of horse
Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist
Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008
Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist
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  *佯* | 佯* | *佯
to feign / to pretend
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  *样* | 样* | *样
manner / pattern / way / appearance / shape / classifier: kind, type
HSK 6
to vaporize / evaporation / carburetion / 氣|气 transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath) / unvoicing of voiced consonant
Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰
Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general
Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗
Yang Guo, protagonist of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" 神鵰俠侶|神雕侠侣 / (used jocularly as a verb "to have tested positive", since 楊|杨 and 陽|阳 are homonyms)
School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍|邹衍
Yang Bin (1963-), Chinese-Dutch businessman
Yang Xiuqing (1821-1856), organizer and commander-in-chief of the Taiping Rebellion
Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若|王钦若 and Yang Yi 楊億|杨亿, 1000 scrolls
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  *坱* | 坱* | *坱
fine dust / plentiful / vast
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  *炀* | 炀* | *炀
molten / smelt
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
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  *漾* | 漾* | *漾
to overflow / to ripple / used in place names / see 漾濞
Yang Jun (571-600), son of the first Sui emperor 楊堅|杨坚
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
Four great beards of Beijing opera, namely: Ma Lianliang 馬連良|马连良, Tan Fuying 譚富英|谭富英, Yang Baosen 楊寶森|杨宝森, Xi Xiaobo 奚嘯伯|奚啸伯
Jerry Yang (1968-), Taiwan-US millionaire and creator of Yahoo
excess of yang 陽|阳 in TCM
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  *恙* | 恙* | *恙
sickness
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  *旸* | 旸* | *旸
rising sun / sunshine
Yang JianLi, PRC human rights activist
Yang Yueqing, Chinese-Canadian woman documentary film director
Yang Sen (1884-1977), Sichuan warlord and general
abbr. for Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王, the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang
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  *蛘* | 蛘* | *蛘
a weevil found in rice etc
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  *怏* | 怏* | *怏
discontented
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  *泱* | 泱* | *泱
agitated (wind, cloud) / boundless
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  *殃* | 殃* | *殃
calamity
Yang Baosen (1909-1958), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生

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