ALL meanings of yang
yang
Y y - noun yang (in Chinese philosophy and religion) two principles, one negative, dark, and feminine (yin) and one positive, bright, and masculine (yang) whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things. 1
- noun yang Chinese philosophy: masculine principle 1
- noun yang (in Chinese philosophy) the active male principle of the universe, characterized as male and creative and associated with heaven, heat, and light. 1
- noun yang (philosophy) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world. 0
- noun yang The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided 100 pun. 0
- noun yang The cry of the wild goose; a honk. 0
- verb yang (rare) To make the cry of the wild goose. 0
- uncountable noun yang In Chinese philosophy, yang is one of the two opposing principles whose interaction is believed to influence everything in the universe. Yang is positive, bright, and masculine while yin is negative, dark, and feminine. 0
- noun yang Chen Ning (ˈtʃɛn ˈnɪŋ). born 1922, US physicist, born in China: with Tsung-Dao Lee, he disproved the physical principle known as the conservation of parity and shared the Nobel prize for physics (1957) 0
- noun yang in Chinese philosophy, the active, positive, masculine force or principle in the universe, source of light and heat: it is always both contrasted with and complementary to the yin 0