楊

See also 杨

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“tree, wood”) + phonetic 昜 – a kind of tree.

Han character

楊 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木日一竹 (DAMH), four-corner 4692₇)

1. willow, poplar, aspen
2. a surname, listed sixteenth in the Baijiaxing

References

• KangXi: page 538, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15112
• Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1248, character 4
• Unihan data for U+694A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

楊 (simplified 杨, Yale yeung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

楊 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: よう (yō)
• Kun: やなぎ (yanagi)

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Korean

Hanja

楊 (hangeul 양, revised yang, McCune-Reischauer yang, Yale yang)

1. (버들): willow

Synonyms

• 柳

Compounds

• 垂楊 (수양, suyang) weeping willow

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Mandarin

Hanzi

楊 (simplified 杨, pinyin yáng (yang2), Yáng (Yang2), Wade-Giles yang², Yang²)

Compounds

• 楊梅

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Min Nan

Hanzi

楊 (POJ Iûⁿ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

楊 (dương, dàng, thang)