1. "Yang", a standard first class character (commonly used) in modern Chinese, is pronounced y á ng in Mandarin, which was first seen in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty and belongs to the pictophonetic characters in the Six Books.
2. The basic meaning of "Yang" is bright; The extended meaning is that ancient Chinese philosophy believed that the universe is one of the two opposite sides of all substances, opposite to "yin", such as "one yin and one yang are the Tao" and "yin and yang are two qi".
3. In daily use, "Yang" is also often used as a noun to indicate the south of mountain or the north of water.
