HSK 4 · Nature

阳光 yángguāng “sunshine” in Chinese

Traditional 陽光

What 阳光 means

  1. sunshine
  2. (of personality) upbeat
  3. energetic
  4. transparent (open to public scrutiny)

How to say 阳光

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale阳yáng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale光guāng1st tone, high and level

阳光 in a sentence

  1. 虽然有阳光照射，但还是很冷。

    Suīrán yǒu yángguāng zhàoshè, dàn háishi hěn lěng.

    Although the sun was shining, it was still cold.

    Sentence #2581511 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 所有的植物都需要阳光和水。

    Suǒyǒu de zhíwù dōu xūyào yángguāng hé shuǐ.

    All plants need sunlight and water.

    Sentence #1250648 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 这间房照不到很多阳光。

    Zhè jiān fáng zhào bu dào hěn duō yángguāng.

    This room doesn’t get much sun.

    Sentence #335528 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 阳光 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 阳 (yáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
阳yángpositive
  • 阝place
  • 日sun · rì
The character 光 (guāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
光guānglight; ray
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 兀weak · wù

How to write 阳光

阳 6 strokes · 光 6 strokes

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阳光 (yángguāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 阳光 (yángguāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 阳光

Words with 阳

太阳tàiyáng · the sun阳台yángtái · balcony夕阳xīyáng · setting sun

Words with 光

光guāng · light光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence光滑guānghuá · glossy光明guāngmíng · bright光盘guāngpán · compact disc (CD)时光shíguāng · time目光mùguāng · gaze曝光bàoguāng · to expose (to the public)观光guānguāng · to go sightseeing风光fēngguāng · scenery

More words: Nature, Animals & Weather

空气kōngqì · air气候qìhòu · climate森林sēnlín · forest温度wēndù · temperature叶子yèzi · leaf云yún · cloud植物zhíwù · plant自然zìrán · nature

FAQs

阳光 (yángguāng) means “sunshine” or “(of personality) upbeat”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yángguāng: yáng with a 2nd tone, then guāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 阳光 is written 陽光. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yangguang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 阳光 from the suggestions. Typing yangguang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
阳光 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.