Hong vs Yang - What's the difference?
hong | yang |
(label) A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, elements of the natural world.
(rare) To make the cry of the wild goose.
* 1902 , Eleanor Gates, The biography of a prairie girl
* 1957 , Adelbert Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century: 1874-1899
The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
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, passage= Hangs'' is a false word, — a Northern corruption of the negro dialect ''yang , — an onomatopœian word, representing the "far heard clang" of the wild goose.
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As nouns the difference between hong and yang
is that hong is chicken, hen while yang is yang.yang
English
Etymology 1
From early romanizations of Chinese , originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings (wikipedia)Noun
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Etymology 3
Imitative.Verb
(en verb)- Away they went, the colt in the lead and the pinto after, until they reached the bunch of cottonwoods far up the stream where the yanging wild geese had their nests.
- Last night we were awakened by the barking of dogs and yanging of a goose, and investigated to find that the man had neglected to house the geese and the dogs were killing them.