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陽 — sunshine, yang principle, positive

よう陽 sunshine

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+967D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1071 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1397 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

sunshine
yang principle
positive
male
heaven
daytime

word

よう you On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

陽(よう) you positive 太(たい) 陽(よう) taiyou sun 陽(よう) 気(き) youki cheerful 陽(よう) 子(こ) youko Youko (female name) 太(たい) 陽(よう) 光(こう) taiyoukou sunlight 陰(いん) 陽(よう) inyou yin and yang

Appears in idioms

陰陽五行四字熟語

shade, sunshine, five, go

Stroke order

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Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

阝 mound

昜 sun rising

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.