Today’s #kanji is 陽, which is listed under its semantic element of #こざとへん（阝）, which means a hill, the earth, etc. Its phonetic element is 昜 which has the meaning of “the sun.” So 陽’s original meaning is the sunny side of a mountain.
Meaning: the sun, a sunny/bright place, positive, the opposite of 陰
Reading: ヨウ、ひ*
陽圧（ヨウアツ）: positive pressure（↔陰圧）
陽気（ヨウキ）な: cheerful, merry, lively, spirited
陽極（ヨウキョク）: the anode, the plus terminal, the positive pole （↔陰極）
陽光（ヨウコウ）: sunshine, sunlight; positive glow
陽子（ヨウシ）: a proton
陽子（ヨウこ）: a common girl’s name
陽性（ヨウセイ）: 【medical verdict】 positive, positivity （↔陰性）
陰陽（インヨウ）: Yin and Yang, the positive and negative, the active and passive
太陽（タイヨウ）: the sun
Unofficial Reading
陽射（ひざ）し: sunlight. Can be written as 日差し with the same sound
夕陽（ユウひ）: the evening sun, the setting sun. More often written as 夕日 with the same sound.
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- こざとへん
陽
