Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

陽: sunshine, yang principle

Also: positive, male, heaven, daytime

JLPT N312 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

⻖ carries the meaning · 昜 gives the sound

12 strokes
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Today

Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ヨウyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 陽光ようこうsunshine, sunlight
  • 陽性ようせいpositive, sanguine [n.]
  • 陽子ようしproton
  • 太陽たいようsun, solar
  • 落陽らくようsetting sun
  • 陽気なようきなcheerful, jovial

Also read ひ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Climb high! This radical represents the natural landscape of mounds, hills, and the protective physical barriers they provide for human settlements.”
More in the 阝 hill story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
⻖

Also built on hill (⻖)

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昜

Also built on 昜

陽 takes the 昜 family's reading, ヨウ (you).

Also read ヨウ

34 kanji share this on'yomiAll 34

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
陽 sunshine · ⻖
vs場 location · 土
陽 has ⻖ where 場 has 土.
In ChineseSimplified 阳 · traditional, as in Japanese · yáng

Japan keeps the traditional form 陽; mainland China simplifies it to 阳.

Simplified
阳 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
陽 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yáng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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