Usage of the character 鞅
yàng
鞅
[鞅]
- wooden yoke for a draft ox
yāng
鞅
[鞅]
- martingale (part of a horse's harness)
- used in 鞅鞅 (yāngyāng)
yàngniú
鞅牛
[鞅牛]
- ox harnessed for plowing
niúyàng
牛鞅
[牛鞅]
- wooden yoke for a draft ox
yāngyāng
鞅鞅
[鞅鞅]
- dissatisfied; displeased; aggrieved
Shāng Yāng
商鞅
[商鞅]
- Shang Yang (c. 390-338 BC), legalist philosopher and statesman of the state of Qin 秦國／秦国 ( Qínguó), whose reforms paved the way for the eventual unification of the Chinese empire by the Qin dynasty 秦朝／秦朝 ( Qíncháo)
yāngzhǎng
鞅掌
[鞅掌]
- (literary) busy (with work etc)
Shāng Yāngbiànfǎ
商鞅变法
[商鞅變法]
- Shang Yang's political reform of Qin state 秦國／秦国 of 356 BC and 350 BC, that put it on the road to world domination
yìchénduànyāng
逸尘断鞅
[逸塵斷鞅]
- lit. kicking up the dust and breaking the harness
- fig. to ride like the wind (idiom)