阳
yáng HSK2

light

阳 (陽) yáng
yang noun
the male principle in Taoist philosophy, opposite of yin

中国文化讲究平衡，有阴必有阳，有刚必有柔。

Zhōng​guó wén​huà jiǎng​jiu píng​héng, yǒu yīn bì yǒu yáng, yǒu gāng bì yǒu róu.

Chinese culture emphasizes balance: where there is yin, there must be yang; where there is hardness, there must be softness.

sun noun
the sun or related to sunlight

这间屋子常年不见阳，感觉非常潮湿。

zhè jiān wū​zi cháng​nián bù jiàn yáng, gǎn​jué fēi​cháng cháo​shī.

This room gets no sunlight all year round and feels very damp.

positive noun
positive electrical charge or polarity

在进行物理实验时，一定要分清电池的阳极和阴极。

zài jìn​xíng wù​lǐ shí​yàn shí, yī​dìng yào fēn​qīng diàn​chí de yáng​jí hé yīn​jí.

When conducting physics experiments, it is essential to distinguish between the anode and the cathode of the battery.

Cross-References

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Frequency
Character
Written text
650th most common 314.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,075th most common 89.7 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.05 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
42.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
陽
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+9633

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