扬
yángYáng HSK4

raise, praise

扬 (揚) yáng frequency
raise verb
to lift up or hoist something upwards

他扬起手向远方的朋友打招呼。

tā yáng qǐ shǒu xiàng yuǎn​fāng de péng​you dǎ zhāo​hu.

He raised his hand to wave to a friend in the distance.

flutter verb
to wave, scatter, or move about in the wind

彩旗在空中随风扬。

cǎi​qí zài kōng​zhōng suí fēng yáng.

Colorful flags are fluttering in the wind.

propagate verb
to spread or make known, such as news, fame, or ideas

这件事千万不能外扬。

zhè jiàn shì qiān​wàn bù néng wài yáng.

This matter must never be made public.

winnow verb
the action of tossing grain or other materials into the air to remove chaff or to scatter them

趁着有风，他在谷场上扬谷。

chèn​zhe yǒu fēng, tā zài gǔ​chǎng shàng yáng gǔ.

Taking advantage of the wind, he is winnowing grain on the threshing floor.

扬 (揚) Yáng
Yang verb
a Chinese surname

扬医生在这一带很有名气，找他看病的人络绎不绝。

Yáng yī​shēng zài zhè yī​dài hěn yǒu míng​qi, zhǎo tā kàn​bìng de rén luò​yì​bù​jué.

Dr. Yang is very famous in this area, and there is a steady stream of patients coming to see him.

Yangzhou noun
abbreviation for Yangzhou City in Jiangsu Province

扬剧是江苏扬州一带的地方戏曲。

Yáng jù shì Jiāng Sū Yáng Zhōu yī​dài de dì​fāng xì​qǔ.

Yang Opera is a local opera from the Yangzhou area of Jiangsu.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,084th most common 137.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,737th most common 30.2 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.56 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
22.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
揚
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+626C

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)