杨
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poplar
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 楊
- Common rank
- #1,264
- Unicode
- U+6768
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
poplar · Heisig RSH #1755
木 tree + piglets
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 杨
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水性杨花 | fickle (woman) | |
| 水杨酸 | salicylic acid | |
| 白杨树 | white poplar (Populus bonatii) | |
| 杨福家 | Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist | |
| 杨月清 | Yang Yueqing, Chinese-Canadian woman documentary film director | |
| 银白杨 | silver birch; white poplar | |
| 杨虎城 | Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general | |
| 普通赤杨 | alder tree (Alnus glutinosa) | |
| 杨建利 | Yang JianLi, PRC human rights activist | |
| 欧洲山杨 | European poplar (Populus tremula) | |
| 白杨 | poplar; CL:棵[ke1] | |
| 杨玉环 | Yang Yuhuan, aka Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1] (719-756), famous Tang beauty, conso… | |
| 杨百翰大学 | Brigham Young University | |
| 杨家将 | Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 楊業|杨… | |
| 杨业 | Yang Ye (died 986), Chinese military general of the Northern Han and the Northern Song dyn… | |
| 杨过 | Yang Guo, protagonist of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" 神鵰俠侶|神雕侠侣[Shen2 diao1 Xia2 lu :… | |
| 百步穿杨 | to shoot with great precision (idiom) | |
| 杨陵区 | Yangling, a district of Xianyang City 咸陽市|咸阳市[Xian2 yang2 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 杨维 | Yang Wei (1979-), PRC badminton player, women's doubles specialist | |
| 杨秀清 | Yang Xiuqing (1821-1856), organizer and commander-in-chief of the Taiping Rebellion |