羊

羊 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿手 (TQ), four-corner 8050₁, composition ⿱䒑𰀁)

1. Kangxi radical #123, ⽺.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/羊
• 佯, 𭂎, 咩, 垟, 𫰧, 㟄, 𰑘, 𢏙, 徉, 𪭰, 洋, 𨒫, 𪯷, 样, 烊, 牂, 珜, 祥, 眻, 𥒞, 𮃁, 𬡘, 絴, 𫅧, 蛘, 觧, 詳(详), 𨀘, 𨋽, 𨦡, 𩊑, 䬺, 𩣆, 𫙊, 鮮(鲜), 𪢟
• 劷, 𨛁, 䍩, 𢼝, 𣁵, 𭭋, 翔, 鴹, 𠲘, 善, 𩰱, 𧒃, 着, 𫳅, 𦭵, 𭽗, 𬒌, 𥥵, 𥬴, 𪔙, 𫨇, 庠, 𡱝, 痒, 氧, 𠙌, 𪢪, 譱

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 950, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3125, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7F8A

Historical forms of the character 羊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – picture of a ram's head.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jaŋ (“sheep; yak”). Cognate with Tibetan གཡག (g.yag, “yak”), Lepcha ᰚᰩᰭ (yók, “yak”), Tangut 𗇼 (*gjwã², “goat”), Northern Tujia zo³⁵ (“goat; sheep”).

羊

1. caprid (e.g. sheep, goat, antelope, etc.) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c)
2. (slang, neologism, humorous) Alternative form of 陽／阳 (yáng, “positive result (in a medical test)”)
3. ^† Alternative form of 祥 (xiáng, “auspicious”)
4. ^† Alternative form of 徉 (yáng)
5. a surname: Yang

• (sheep, goat):

Others:

• Wutunhua: yang

• (Chinese zodiac signs) 鼠 (shǔ), 牛 (niú), 虎 (hǔ), 兔 (tù), 龍／龙 (lóng), 蛇 (shé), 馬／马 (mǎ), 羊 (yáng), 猴 (hóu), 雞／鸡 (jī), 狗 (gǒu), 豬／猪 (zhū) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese zodiac signs)}

• “Entry #2600”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Orthographic borrowing from translingual ¥. Perhaps influenced by 大洋 (dàyáng).

羊

1. (slang) Japanese yen
2. (slang) Chinese yuan

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. sheep

• Go-on: よう (yō, Jōyō); じょう (jō)
• Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō); しょう (shō)
• Kun: ひつじ (hitsuji, 羊, Jōyō)

⟨pi₁tuzi⟩ → */pʲituzi/ → /ɸituzi/ → /çitsudʑi/

From Old Japanese.[1] Further derivation unknown.

• (Tokyo) ひつじ [hìtsújí] (Heiban – [0])[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [çi̥t͡sɨᵝʑi]

• • Homophone: 未

羊(ひつじ) or 羊(ヒツジ) • (hitsuji) 

1. a sheep (animal)
   • 1999 March 6, “スリーピィ [Sleepie]”, in Starter Box(スターターボックス), Konami:

     しっぽの長(なが)いひつじ。しっぽを使(つか)い催(さい)眠(みん)術(じゅつ)をかけ、睡(すい)魔(ま)を誘(さそ)う。

     Shippo no nagai hitsuji. Shippo o tsukai saiminjutsu o kake, suima o sasou.

     A sheep that will mesmerize you to sleep with its long tail.

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒツジ.

• 未(ひつじ) (hitsuji)

From Middle Chinese 羊 (MC yang).

• IPA^(key): [jo̞ː]

羊(よう) • (yō) 

1. a sheep (animal)

From Middle Chinese 羊 (MC yang). Recorded as Middle Korean 야ᇰ (yang) (Yale: yang) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 羊 (eumhun 양 양 (yang yang))

1. Hanja form^? of 양 (“sheep”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

羊: Hán Nôm readings: dương

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