yang

noun

1. (uncountable)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?"”

   “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.”

2. The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 100 pun.
3. 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.”

verb

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.”

   “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.”

name

1. (Chinese, alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of yang when used as a proper noun.
2. A surname from Chinese of various origins.
3. A surname from Korean of various origins.
4. 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.”

   “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.”

   “A male vegetable seller killed a female hawker in a fight over space at a farmer's market in Yang county, near Hanzhong , Huashang Daily reports.”