yáng

soar

Evolution

颺 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
颺 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
颺 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Definitions

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yáng

soar, fly, float; scatter; to soar; to fly; to float; variant of |[yáng], to scatter; to spread

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*laŋ

yang

yáng

tossed by the wind


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6116th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+98BA

Shuowen

“颺,風所飛揚也。从風,昜聲。”


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