yang

yang  (yng)

n.

The active, male cosmic principle in Chinese dualistic philosophy.

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[Chinese (Mandarin) yáng, sun, light, male element.]

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Yang [jæŋ]

n

(Philosophy) See Yin and Yang

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Yang²

n

(Biographies / Yang, Chen Ning (1922 M, USnational of birth: Chinese, SCIENCE: physicist) Chen Ning (ˈtʃɛn ˈnɪŋ). born 1922, US physicist, born in China: with Tsung-Dao Lee, he disproved the physical principle known as the conservation of parity and shared the Nobel prize for physics (1957)

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

yang - the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology; "yin and yang together produce everything that comes into existence" principle, rule - a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works" Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world yin - the dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology; "the interaction of yin and yang maintains the harmony of the universe"

Translations

yang [jæŋ] N → yang m