Yong
Yong (Chinese: 勇; pinyin: yǒng; Wade–Giles: yung) is the Chinese word for "courage" or "brave" as an adjective; "soldier" as a noun.
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Famous quotes containing the word yong:
“Hail, comly and clene,
Hail, yong child!
Hail, maker, as I meene,
Of a maden so milde!”
—Unknown. The Second Shepherd’s Play (l. 6–8)
“And I was yong and ful of ragerye,
Stibourne and strong and joly as a pie:
How coude I daunce to an harpe smale,
And singe, ywis, as any nightingale,
Whan I hadde dronke a draughte of sweete win.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)