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yang
[yahng, yang]
noun
(in Chinese philosophy and religion) the positive, bright, and masculine principle, the counterpart of yin.
Yang
1/ æŋ /
noun
See Yin and Yang
Yang
2/ æŋ /
noun
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)
Example Sentences
There is a yin and yang to that.
Seattle quarterback Geno Smith embodied the yin and yang of this wild game, throwing three beautiful touchdown passes but offsetting those with three interceptions.
“It’s well documented they were yin and yang, so it happened naturally. The deeper rooted he was, the more I could fly.”
"We see the yin and yang of human existence in the ancient Maya," Lentz said.
We grow up to discover there are names in every culture for that — yin and yang, the Apollonian and Dionysian, Vishnu and Shiva, thesis and antithesis, the law of contraries, the dialectic.
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When To Use
Yang is a common Chinese surname.It also refers to a cosmic force present in ancient Chinese philosophy, typically associated with masculinity, sunlight, and the color white.
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