Editing Yin and yang (section)

=== Meanings ===
''Yin'' and ''yang'' are semantically complex words.

[[John DeFrancis]]'s ''[[ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary]]'' gives the following translation equivalents.<ref>John DeFrancis, ed., ''ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary'', University of Hawaii Press, 2003, 1147, 1108.</ref>
<blockquote>'''Yin''' {{zhi|c=陰}} or {{zhi|c=阴}}—[[Noun]]: ① [philosophy] female/passive/negative principle in nature, ② Surname; [[Bound morpheme]]: ① the moon, ② shaded orientation, ③ covert; concealed; hidden, ④ vagina, ⑤ penis, ⑥ of the netherworld, ⑦ negative, ⑧ north side of a hill, ⑨ south bank of a river, ⑩ reverse side of a stele, ⑪ in intaglio; [[Stative verb]]: ① overcast, ② sinister; treacherous</blockquote>
<blockquote>'''Yang''' {{zhi|c=陽}} or {{zhi|c=阳}}—[[Bound morpheme]]: ① [Chinese philosophy] male/active/positive principle in nature, ② the sun, ③ male genitals, ④ in relief, ⑤ open; overt, ⑥ belonging to this world, ⑦ [linguistics] masculine, ⑧ south side of a hill, ⑨ north bank of a river</blockquote>

The [[Compound (linguistics)|compound]] ''yinyang'' {{lang|zh-hant|陰陽}} means "yin and yang; opposites; ancient Chinese astronomy; occult arts; astrologer; geomancer; etc."

The sinologist [[Rolf Stein]] glosses Chinese ''yin'' {{lang|zh-hant|陰}} as "shady side (of a mountain)" and ''yang'' {{lang|zh-hant|陽}} as "sunny side (of a mountain)" with the uncommon English geographic terms ''[[wikt:ubac|ubac]]'' "shady side of a mountain" and ''[[wikt:adret|adret]]'' "sunny side of a mountain" (which are of [[List of English words of French origin|French origin]]).<ref>Rolf Stein (2010), ''Rolf Stein's Tibetica Antiqua: With Additional Materials'', Brill, p. 63.</ref>