Yinyang: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	yin and yang • yin-yang • in-yō • yang

Photos

Black and white Yin and Yang symbol with each half containing a dot of the opposite color, set against a plain white background.

Yin and yang symbol

Pan Gu holding the yin–yang symbol, 19th-century European print after a Chinese drawing; in the British Museum.

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Topics

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Key People

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Dong Zhongshu

Chinese scholar