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Mythic Mandarin

阳 (yáng): meaning and stroke order

阳 (yáng) means positive (electric.), sun, male principle (Taoism), Yang, opposite: 阴.

阳

Simplified
阳
Traditional
陽
Pinyin
yáng

Stroke order of 阳

阳

  • yáng positive (electric.); sun
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 陽

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 阳

  1. yáng Traditional 陽
    • positive (electric.)
    • sun
    • male principle (Taoism)
    • Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]

Radical and structure

阳
Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 6 strokes · 阝 on the left, 日 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 阳

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).