| 杨 | yáng | poplar; surname Yang |
| 杨秀清 | Yáng Xiù qīng | Yang Xiuqing |
| 杨树 | yáng shù | poplar tree; various trees of genus Populus |
| 杨柳 | yáng liǔ | willow tree; poplar and willow; name of traditional tune |
| 白杨 | bái yáng | poplar; CL:棵 |
| 杨虎城 | Yáng Hǔ chéng | Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general |
| 赤杨 | chì yáng | alder tree (genus Alnus) |
| 杨坚 | Yáng Jiān | first Sui emperor (541-604) Yang Jian (541-604), reigned 581-604 |
| 白杨树 | bái yáng shù | white poplar (Populus bonatii) |
| 杨梅 | yáng méi | red bayberry; Chinese bayberry; Japanese bayberry; Myrica rubra; CL:颗,个; Yangmei town in Taoyuan county 桃园县, north Taiwan |
| 垂杨柳 | chuí yáng liǔ | weeping willow |
| 普通赤杨 | pǔ tōng chì yáng | alder tree (Alnus glutinosa) |
| 桁杨 | háng yáng | lit. stocks and knives; fig. any punishment equipment; torture instrument |
| 桁杨刀锯 | háng yáng dāo jù | lit. stocks and knives; fig. any punishment equipment; torture instrument |
| 杨丞琳 | Yáng Chéng lín | Rainie Yang (1984-), Taiwanese entertainer |
| 杨俊 | Yáng Jùn | Yang Jun (571-600), son of the first Sui emperor 杨坚 |
| 杨亿 | Yáng Yì | Yang Yi (974-1020), Northern Song dynasty writer and poet |
| 杨凝式 | Yáng Níng shì | Yang Ningshi (873-954) calligrapher of 5 dynasties period between Tang and Song |
| 杨妃 | Yáng Fēi | see 杨贵妃 |
| 杨守仁 | Yáng Shǒu rén | Yang Shouren (1912-2005), PRC agricultural scientist; Yang Shouren (16th century), Ming dynasty scholar |
| 杨家将 | Yáng jiā jiàng | Yang Saga, a popular fiction from the Northern Song, depicting the heroic Yang family 杨业 of warriors |
| 杨宝森 | Yáng Bǎo sēn | Yang Baosen (1909-1958), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大须生 |
| 杨尚昆 | Yáng Shàng kūn | Yang Shangkun |
| 杨建利 | Yáng Jiàn lì | Yang JianLi, PRC human rights activist |
| 杨振宁 | Yáng Zhèn níng | Chen Ning Yang |
| 杨采妮 | Yáng Cài nī | Charlie Young (1974-),Hong Kong actress and singer |
| 杨斌 | Yáng Bīn | Yang Bin |
| 杨月清 | Yáng Yuè qīng | Yang Yueqing, Chinese-Canadian woman documentary film director |
| 杨桃 | yáng táo | carambola; star fruit |
| 杨梅镇 | Yáng méi zhèn | Yangmei town in Taoyuan county 桃园县, north Taiwan |
| 杨森 | Yáng Sēn | Yang Sen |
| 杨业 | Yáng yè | famous Song dynasty family of warriors (c. 10th century AD), resisted the Liao 辽 and defended the Song; the subject of the popular fiction Yang Saga 杨家将 |
| 杨浦区 | Yáng pǔ qū | Yangpu district, central Shanghai |
| 杨深秀 | Yáng Shēn xiù | Yang Shenxiu, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 |
| 杨洁篪 | Yáng Jié chí | Yang Jiechi (1950-), Chinese politician and diplomat, foreign minister of PRC from 2007 |
| 杨澄中 | Yáng Chéng zhōng | Yang Chengzhong (1913-1987), Chinese nuclear physicist |
| 杨玉环 | Yáng Yù huán | Yang Yuhuan or Yang Guifei 杨贵妃 (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the Anshi rebellion 安史之乱 |
| 杨百翰 | yáng bǎi hàn | Brigham Young |
| 杨百翰大学 | yáng bǎi hàn dà xué | Brigham Young University |
| 杨福家 | Yáng Fú jiā | Yang Fujia (1936-), nuclear physicist, famous for Yang-Mills gauge theory |
| 杨维 | Yáng Wéi | Yang Wei (badminton) |
| 杨致远 | Yáng Zhì yuǎn | Jerry Yang (1968-), Taiwan-US millionaire and creator of Yahoo |
| 杨贵妃 | Yáng Guì fēi | Yang Yuhuan 杨玉环 or Yang Guifei (719-756), famous Tang beauty, consort of Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, blamed for extravagance and killed as a scapegoat during the Anshi rebellion 安史之乱 |
| 杨锐 | Yáng Ruì | Yang Rui, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898 |
| 杨开慧 | Yáng Kāi huì | Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife |
| 杨陵 | Yáng líng | Yangling district in Xiányáng city 咸阳市, Shǎnxī 陕西 |
| 杨陵区 | Yáng líng qū | Yangling district in Xiányáng city 咸阳市, Shǎnxī 陕西 |
| 欧洲山杨 | Ōu zhōu shān yáng | European poplar (Populus tremula) |
| 水性杨花 | shuǐ xìng yáng huā | fickle (woman) |
| 水杨酸 | shuǐ yáng suān | salicylic acid |
