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Trad. 揚
- to raise
- to hoist
- the action of tossing or winnowing
- scattering (in the wind)
- to flutter
- to propagate
Trad. 唐揚
- Japanese-style fried food, usually chicken (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 唐揚げ "karaage")
Trad. 張揚
- to display ostentatiously
- to bring out into the open
- to make public
- to spread around
- flamboyant
- brash
Trad. 揚言
- to put about (a story, plan, threat etc)
- to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story)
- to threaten
Trad. 揚長
- with swagger
- ostentatiously
- to make the best use of one's strengths
Trad. 揚雄
- Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言[Fang1 yan2]
Trad. 抑揚
- modulation (rising and falling pitch)
- intonation
- a cadence
- to rise and fall (of a body floating in water)
Trad. 肖揚
- Xiao Yang (1938-), president of the PRC Supreme Court 1998-2008
Trad. 揚中市
- Yangzhong, a county-level city in Zhenjiang City 鎮江市|镇江市[Zhen4 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangsu
Trad. 揚子江
- Changjiang 長江|长江 or Yangtze River
- old name for Changjiang, especially lower reaches around Yangzhou 揚州|扬州
Trad. 揚州市
- Yangzhou, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省[Jiang1 su1 Sheng3]
Trad. 米高揚
- Mikoyan (name)
- Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s
- Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft
Trad. 神采飛揚
- in high spirits (idiom); glowing with health and vigor
Trad. 臭名遠揚
- stinking reputation
- notorious far and wide
Trad. 激濁揚清
- lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good
- eliminate vice and exalt virtue
Trad. 發揚光大
- to develop and promote
- to carry forward
- to bring to great height of development
Trad. 紛紛揚揚
- (idiom) (of leaves etc) fluttering about
Trad. 發揚蹈厲
- see 發揚踔厲|发扬踔厉[fa1 yang2 chuo1 li4]
Trad. 揚名四海
- known throughout the country (idiom); world-famous
Trad. 揚州炒飯
- Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
Trad. 揚帆遠航
- to set sail on a voyage to a distant place
- (fig.) to undertake a great mission
Trad. 揚幡招魂
- lit. to raise a banner to summon the soul of a dying person (idiom)
- fig. to try to revive what is obsolete or dead
Trad. 揚清激濁
- lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom); fig. dispel evil and usher in good
- eliminate vice and exalt virtue
Trad. 揚科維奇
- Jankovic
- Yankovic
- Yankovich
- Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player
Trad. 揚長而去
- to swagger off
- to walk off (or drive off etc) without a second thought for those left behind
Trad. 揚長避短
- to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses (idiom)
- to play to one's strengths
Trad. 懲惡揚善
- to uphold virtue and condemn evil (idiom)
Trad. 其貌不揚
- (idiom) nothing special to look at
- unprepossessing
Trad. 名揚四海
- to become known far and wide (idiom)
- famous
Trad. 耀武揚威
- to show off one's military strength (idiom); to strut around
- to bluff
- to bluster
Trad. 上揚趨勢
- upward trend; tendency to increase
Trad. 隱惡揚善
- (idiom) to highlight sb's good points but omit to mention their faults
Trad. 跨鶴揚州
- lit. to ride a crane to Yangzhou
- to become a Daoist immortal
- to die
Trad. 足高氣揚
- high and mighty (idiom); arrogant
Trad. 得意揚揚
- variant of 得意洋洋[de2 yi4 yang2 yang2]
Trad. 趾高氣揚
- high and mighty (idiom); arrogant
Trad. 分道揚鑣
- lit. to take different roads and urge the horses on (idiom)
- fig. to part ways
Trad. 抑揚頓挫
- see 頓挫抑揚|顿挫抑扬[dun4 cuo4 yi4 yang2]
Trad. 飛揚跋扈
- bossy and domineering
- throwing one's weight about
Trad. 沸沸揚揚
- bubbling and gurgling
- hubbubing
- abuzz
Trad. 騎鶴上揚州
- lit. to ride a crane to Yangzhou (idiom); to get an official position
Trad. 家醜不可外揚
- lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom)
- fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
Trad. 斯瓦爾巴和揚馬延
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Trad. 耶萊娜·揚科維奇
- Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player