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扬

yáng

raise, praise

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 𠃓 represents the sound. Simplified form of 揚.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

𠃓 sound component

𠃓  Sound component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

扬 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
扬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
扬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
扬 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
扬 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

扬 (揚) 

yáng

scatter, spread; praise; to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate

扬 (揚) 

Yáng

abbr. for 揚州|扬州[Yáng​zhōu]; surname Yang

扬 (敭) 

yáng

variant of 揚|扬[yáng]

Most common words with 扬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扬

to raise

表扬

to praise

赞扬

to praise

发扬

to develop

宣扬

to proclaim

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.7045% of movies

1737th most common character in movies

1084th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

揚

Unicode

U+626C


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