昜
yáng

bright

Original meaning: sunshine

Depicts rays (彡) of sunlight (日) shining through tree branches (丂).

Components

日
日 Iconic component
rì sun
丂
丂 Iconic component
kǎo, qiǎo, yú axe handle

Depicts a tree branch.

彡
彡 Iconic component
shān, xiǎn hair

Depicts rays of sunlight.


Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (7 of 22 verified)

量肠畅疡炀陽饧觞腸殇砀塲揚煬殤觴𬀷暢楊𥏫場湯

Meaning (1 of 2 verified)

陽砀

Remnant (1)

量

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

杨

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartyanglaŋ bright

說文解字

《說文》：“昜，開也。一曰飛揚，一曰長也，一曰彊者眾皃。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

𠃓 yáng bright Simplified

Original meaning: sunshine

Simplified from 昜. Depicts rays (彡) of sunlight (日) shining through tree branches (丂).

Components

◎
◎ IconicSimplified component
characterless component

Shorthand for the 日 and 丂 components. Depicts the sun (日) shining at a tree branch (丂).

彡
彡 IconicSimplified component
shān, xiǎn hair

Depicts rays of sunlight.

Component uses

Sound (3)

场扬汤

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode