Yang

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from Chinese yáng ‘male genitals’, ‘sun’, ‘positive’.


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From early romanizations of Chinese 陽/ 阳 (yáng), originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings

From Korean 양 ( 兩, yang, “yang, tael”). Doublet of liang.

Imitative.


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yang (n.)

masculine or positive principle in Chinese philosophy, 1670s, from Mandarin yang, said to mean "male, daylight, solar," or "sun, positive, male genitals."