Yang

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Yang may refer to:

• Yang, in yin and yang, the word for one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy, described as "bright positive masculine principle" in Chinese cosmology
• Yang County, in Shaanxi, China
• Yang, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• The Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902
• YANG, a data modeling language for the NETCONF network configuration protocol
• Yang, Sikhoraphum, Surin Province, Thailand

Fictional characters

• Cristina Yang, on the turn of the century TV show, Grey's Anatomy
• Yang, from the show Yin Yang Yo!
• Yang, Experiment 502 in Lilo and Stitch: The Series
• Yang Fang Leiden, from Final Fantasy IV
• Yang Lee, in the Street Fighter III series of videogames
• Mr. Yang, the Yin Yang serial killer in the season 3 finale of Psych
• Yang Xiao Long, a main character from the RWBY animated series

People

• Yang (surname), 楊, 杨, Chinese surname
• Yang, a common Chinese surname Yú (Yeo)(楊)
  • Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Prize winning physicist
  • Xiangzhong Yang (1959-2009), Chinese-American scientist
  • Yang Zhongjian (杨钟健, 1897-1979), Chinese paleontologist.
  • Jerry Yang (entrepreneur), Taiwanese American entrepreneur
  • Yang Jisheng, Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone
• Dong Yi Yang (born 1984), South Korean mixed martial arts fighter
• Jerry Yang (poker player), winner of the 2007 World Series of Poker
• Yang Yong-eun or Y.E. Yang (born 1972), South Korean golfer
• Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the constitutional monarch of Malaysia
• Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer, actress and host
• Yang (ยาง), one of the names for the Karen people in the Thai language

See also

• Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan, a Chinese martial art named after the Yang family
• All pages beginning with "Yang"

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