Memory phrase for the character: 阳

阳

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Meaning

Sun, positive, male principle, Yang of (Yin:阴/Yang:阳)

Pronunciation

 yáng

Explanation

 Left: hill 阝(If this radical: 阝is at the left of a character it means 'hill', otherwise it means 'village'), right: sun 日

Mnemonic
 
The hill is on its sunny side positive, thus the: Yang (male)

Radicals

阝 hillThis radical shows a hill. This radical 阝 is always on the left of the hanzi. (Please note that this relatively similar radical ⻏ stands for “village” and is in the character always on the right.)
日 sun, dayThis radical was developed from a circle with a central dot as the image of the sun. As you can hardly draw circles or dots with a brush, it became the current rectangular shape.
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 Vocabulary

阳光 yáng guāng  sunshine
阳光 yáng guāng  
阳光 yáng guāng  
阳光 yáng guāng  
阳光 yáng guāng  
阳光 yáng guāng  
阜阳市 Fù yáng shì  Fuyang prefecture level city in Anhui
阜阳市 Fù yáng shì  
汾阳 Fén yáng  Fenyang (City in Shanxi)
酉阳县 Yǒu yáng xiàn  Youyang Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Qianjiang suburbs of Chongqing municipality
酉阳县 Yǒu yáng xiàn  
酉阳县 Yǒu yáng xiàn  

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