yáng

rising sun

No origin information available for this character yet.

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rising sun Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhanglaŋ

說文解字

日出也。从日昜聲。《虞書》曰:“暘谷。”

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Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica