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  *养* | 养* | *养
to raise (animals) / to bring up (children) / to keep (pets) / to support / to give birth
HSK 2
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  *阴* | 阴* | *阴
overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia
HSK 2
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  *羊* | 羊* | *羊
sheep; goat / CL: 頭|头, 隻|只
HSK 3
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  *样* | 样* | *样
manner / pattern / way / appearance / shape / classifier: kind, type
HSK 6
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  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
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  *仰* | 仰* | *仰
to face upward / to look up / to admire / to rely on
HSK 6
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  *氧* | 氧* | *氧
oxygen (chemistry)
HSK 7-9
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  *扬* | 扬* | *扬
to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate
HSK 7-9
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  *痒* | 痒* | *痒
to itch / to tickle
HSK 7-9
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  *扬* | 扬* | *扬
variant of 揚|扬
HSK 7-9
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  *痒* | 痒* | *痒
variant of 癢|痒 / to itch / to tickle
HSK 7-9
yin and yang
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  *阳* | 阳* | *阳
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴
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  *杨* | 杨* | *杨
surname Yang
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  *杨* | 杨* | *杨
poplar
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  *垟* | 垟* | *垟
clay sheep buried with the dead
Yang Guo, protagonist of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" 神鵰俠侶|神雕侠侣 / (used jocularly as a verb "to have tested positive", since 楊|杨 and 陽|阳 are homonyms)
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  *仰* | 仰* | *仰
surname Yang
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  *羊* | 羊* | *羊
surname Yang
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
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  *央* | 央* | *央
center / end / to beg / to plead
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  *秧* | 秧* | *秧
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) to raise; to cultivate (plants or animals)
Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter
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  *扬* | 扬* | *扬
abbr. for Yangzhou 揚州|扬州 in Jiangsu / surname Yang
the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄 in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
Gao Yang (1926-1992), Taiwanese historical novelist
(TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive
yin and yang; heaven and earth; the universe
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  *鞅* | 鞅* | *鞅
martingale (part of a horse's harness) / used in 鞅鞅
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  *鞅* | 鞅* | *鞅
wooden yoke for a draft ox
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  *恙* | 恙* | *恙
sickness
Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國|秦国, whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝
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  *烊* | 烊* | *烊
molten / smelt
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  *漾* | 漾* | *漾
to overflow / to ripple / used in place names / see 漾濞
to vaporize / evaporation / carburetion / 氣|气 transformation in TCM (i.e. transformation of yin yang vital breath) / unvoicing of voiced consonant
Yang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
heaven and earth / yin and yang
deficiency of yang 陽|阳 (TCM)
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  *炀* | 炀* | *炀
molten / smelt
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  *鸯* | 鸯* | *鸯
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  *旸* | 旸* | *旸
rising sun / sunshine
Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業|杨业 of warriors
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  *泱* | 泱* | *泱
agitated (wind, cloud) / boundless
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  *殃* | 殃* | *殃
calamity
Yang Sen (1884-1977), Sichuan warlord and general
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  *佯* | 佯* | *佯
to feign / to pretend
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  *怏* | 怏* | *怏
discontented
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  *徉* | 徉* | *徉
to walk back and forth
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  *坱* | 坱* | *坱
fine dust / plentiful / vast
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
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  *疡* | 疡* | *疡
ulcers / sores
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  *炴* | 炴* | *炴
firelight; blaze
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  *蛘* | 蛘* | *蛘
a weevil found in rice etc
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  *钖* | 钖* | *钖
ornaments on headstall of horse
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  *鉠* | 鉠* | *鉠
(onom.) ring / tinkle
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  *飏* | 飏* | *飏
to soar / to fly / to float / variant of 揚|扬, to scatter / to spread
Yang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet
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  *瀁* | 瀁* | *瀁
ripples
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  *胦* | 胦* | *胦
the navel
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  *昜* | 昜* | *昜
old variant of 陽|阳
Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言
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  *氜* | 氜* | *氜
old variant of 陽|阳
excess of yang 陽|阳 in TCM
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  *飬* | 飬* | *飬
old variant of 養|养
Yang Jun (571-600), son of the first Sui emperor 楊堅|杨坚
Yang Lan (1968-), Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show hostess
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家
first Sui emperor Yang Jian (541-604), reigned 581-604
Rainie Yang (1984-), Taiwanese entertainer
Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)
Yang Bin (1963-), Chinese-Dutch businessman
Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist
Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗
Double Ninth or Yang Festival / 9th day of 9th lunar month
Long yang village in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai
Zou Yan (305-240 BC), founder of the School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
Yang Zhu (c. 440-360 BC), Chinese philosopher advocating ethical egoism
Yang Rui (1855-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 / Yang Rui (1963-), host of "Dialogue" on CCTV News
Yang Ye (died 986), Chinese military general of the Northern Han and the Northern Song dynasties, defended the Song against invasion by the Liao 遼|辽
Yang Jiong (650-693?), one of the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang 初唐四傑|初唐四杰
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *様* | 様* | *様
Japanese variant of 樣|样
Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008
Yang Baosen (1909-1958), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang, namely Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王
Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國|秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination
lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
Prime tortoise of the record bureau, Song dynasty historical encyclopedia of political essays, autobiography, memorials and decrees, compiled 1005-1013 under Wang Qinruo 王欽若|王钦若 and Yang Yi 楊億|杨亿, 1000 scrolls
the four legendary beauties of ancient China, namely: Xishi 西施, Wang Zhaojun 王昭君, Diaochan 貂蟬|貂蝉 and Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環|杨玉环
School of Yin-Yang of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) founded by Zou Yan 鄒衍|邹衍
Yang Jiechi (1950-), Chinese politician and diplomat, foreign minister of PRC 2007-2013
the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the failed reform movement of 1898, executed in its aftermath, namely: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同|谭嗣同, Lin Xu 林旭, Yang Shenxiu 楊深秀|杨深秀, Liu Guangdi 劉光第|刘光第, Kang Guangren 康廣仁|康广仁 and Yang Rui 楊銳|杨锐
(TCM) consumptive disease, chronic deficiency disorder due to impaired function of inner organs, deficiency of qi, blood, yin and yang / asthenia
(TCM) the eight principal syndromes (used to differentiate pathological conditions): yin and yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, hypofunction and hyperfunction
lesser yang gallbladder meridian of the leg (one of the 12 principal meridians of TCM)
Yang Xiuqing (1821-1856), organizer and commander-in-chief of the Taiping Rebellion
Yang Shenxiu (1849-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist
abbr. for Wang Bo 王勃, Yang Jiong 楊炯|杨炯, Lu Zhaolin 盧照鄰|卢照邻, and Luo Binwang 駱賓王|骆宾王, the Four Great Poets of the Early Tang
Peng Yang'ou, late Qing novelist, author of Victims of Opium 黑籍冤魂
Yang JianLi, PRC human rights activist

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