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'''Yang''' may refer to:
* [[Yang (the God)]]: an ancient faith in Tây Nguyên, Vietnam.
* [[Yang (character)]], The fictional character from the Disney/Jetix show Yin Yang Yo!.
*Yang is a transcription of several Chinese words as they are pronounced in Mandarin:
**[[wiktionary:陽|陽]] or 阳 (''yáng''), a word that may mean "(sun)light," "good," "heaven," etc.
***This is also the word for one half of the two opposing forces in Chinese philosophy, described as "bright positive masculine principle" in Chinese dualistic cosmology of [[yin and yang]]
**[[wiktionary:楊|楊]] or 杨 is a word for certain tree species, such as the poplar and the aspen.
***[[Yang (surname)]], is usually transcribed from this word. E.g. ''Edward Zhong Zhong Yang''
**[[wiktionary:羊|羊]], sheep or goat, and symbol for the eighth of twelve animals in Chinese astrology.
**[[wiktionary:洋|洋]] (''yáng''), a word for "ocean," which may also be used as a prefix to form words that refer to foreign people, objects, or ideas that have reached China from overseas
* [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]], the constitutional monarch of Malaysia
* Yang is [[Experiment 502]] in ''Lilo and Stitch: The Series''
* [[Yang Fang Leiden]] - a fictional character from Final Fantasy IV
* [[Yang Lee]] - a character in the Street Fighter III series of fighting videogames.
* [[Chen Ning Yang]]: a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
* [[Yang Zhongjian]] (杨钟健, 1897-1979), a Chinese paleontologist
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