Taijitu as the Joseon royal standard. Since the 1960s, "yin-yang symbol" is most widely applied to the "He tu" symbol which combines the two interlocking spirals with two dots. In the standard form of the contemporary "yin-yang symbol", one draws on the diameter of a circle two non-overlapping circles each of which has a diameter equal to the radius of the outer circle. One keeps the line that forms an "S", and one erases or obscures the other line. The design is also described "pair of fishes nestling head to tail against each other". The Soyombo symbol of Mongolia may be
Yin and yang word "yang" "sunny side" and a few contain "yin" "shady side". In China, as elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, sunlight comes predominantly from the south, and thus the south face of a mountain or the north bank of a river will receive more direct sunlight than the opposite side. "Yang" refers to the "south side of a hill" in Hengyang 衡陽, which is south of Mount Heng 衡山 in Hunan province, and to the "north bank of a river" in Luoyang 洛陽, which is located north of the Luo River 洛河 in Henan. Similarly, "yin" refers to "north side of