yáng

willow

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

tree

昜 unknown component

  Unknown component

yáng

  

bright

Evolution

杨 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
杨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Traditional script

Modern
杨 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yáng

willow, poplar, aspen; surname; poplar

() 

Yáng

surname Yang

Most common words with 杨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

poplar

白杨

poplar

白杨树

white poplar (Populus bonatii)

杨梅

red bayberry

杨树

poplar tree

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.1784% of movies

2615th most common character in movies

1062nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+6768


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