The symbol The Yin, or the dark side, is associated with everything hard, negative, cold, wet, and feminine. The Yang, or the light side, is associated with things soft, positive, warm, dry, and masculine.

3,500 years old

English Language Learners Definition of yang in Chinese philosophy : one of the two forces that together form everything that exists : the male principle of the universe that is considered light and active and is associated with heaven.

Since the zodiac animal cycle of 12 is divisible by two, every zodiac sign can occur only as either yin or yang: the Dragon is always yang, the Snake is always yin, etc.

Yan (燕) is a Chinese surname. It has various origins: during the Ancient China, Ji (姞) family get surname Yan (燕) with title of Nanyan (state) (南燕國)

Yan (Chinese: 燕; pinyin: Yān; Old Chinese pronunciation: *ʔˤe[n]) was an ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty. Its capital was Ji (later known as Yanjing and now Beijing).

Im (Korean surname) or Yim, a common Korean surname.

In the Silla kingdom (57 BCE–935 CE)—which variously battled and allied with other states on the Korean peninsula and ultimately unified most of Korea in 668—Kim (which means “gold”) was the name of a family that rose to prominence and became the rulers of Silla for 700 years.

Im Yoon-ah (Korean: 임윤아; born May 30, 1990), known mononymously as Yoona, is a South Korean singer and actress.

Park or Bak is usually assumed to come from the Korean noun Bak (박), meaning “gourd”. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 4,192,074 people with the name in South Korea, or roughly 8.4% of the population.

When Koreans write their names in English, they generally follow the order of Western names, placing their given name first and their family name last. Sometimes this causes confusion because many Westerners know the traditional order of East Asian names and some media use Korean names in the original order.

Korean names are usually three syllables long, formatted as [surname] [personal name] [personal name], with one syllable for each name. While surname is one usually syllable, some may be two syllables. For example, in the name ‘NAM GUNG Min’, NAM GUNG is the surname and Min is the first name.

The top 10 most common Korean surnames are as below:

• Kim (김) 10.6 million.
• Lee (이) 7.3 million.
• Park (박) 4.1 million.
• Choi (최) 2.333 million.
• Jung / Jeong (정) 2.151 million.
• Kang (강) 1.176 million.
• Cho / Jo (조) 1.055 million.
• Yun / Yoon (윤) 1.02 million.

Kim or Gim (Hangul: 김) is the most common surname in Korea. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were people by this name in South Korea or 21.5% of the population. Kim is written as 김 (gim) in both North and South Korea. The hanja for Kim, 金 can also be transliterated as 금 (geum) which means “metal.