Yang

Pronunciation

• enPR: yăng, IPA: /jæŋ/
• (also) US enPR: yāng, IPA: /jeɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

From Chinese

Full definition of yang

Noun

1. The essential male principle in eastern religion or philosophy.

Antonyms

• yin

Related terms

• yin-yang

From Korean .

Noun

1. The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided 100 pun.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋ

Imitative.

Verb

1. (rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
• 1902, Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girlAway they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.
• 1957, Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.

Noun

1. The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
• 1867, Gail Hamilton, Wool-gathering Chapter , Hangs is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect yang, — an onomatopÅ“ian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose.