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Yang may refer to:

• 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:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 羊, sheep or goat, and symbol for the eighth of twelve animals in Chinese astrology.
  • 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
• Yang Jisheng, a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone

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