Yin Yang Yo! two rabbit twins named Yin (Stephanie Morgenstern) and Yang (Scott McCord) that train under Master Yo, a grumpy old panda who is eventually revealed to be their biological father. They learn the sacred art of Woo Foo, a special type of martial arts that involves both might and magic. They must work together to save the world from evil villains and forces that want to destroy, corrupt, or take it over. However, through all these adventures, Yin and Yang still portray stereotypical siblings; belligerently antagonistic but still ultimately caring about each other and working together when needed. During the first
Yin and yang "to shelter; shade", and 陽 or 阳 "sunny" is always pronounced with rising second tone "yáng". Sinologists and historical linguists have reconstructed Middle Chinese pronunciations from data in the (7th century CE) "Qieyun" rhyme dictionary and later rhyme tables, which was subsequently used to reconstruct Old Chinese phonology from rhymes in the (11th-7th centuries BCE) "Shijing" and phonological components of Chinese characters. Reconstructions of Old Chinese have illuminated the etymology of modern Chinese words. Compare these Middle Chinese and Old Chinese (with asterisk) reconstructions of "yīn" 陰 and "yáng" 陽: Schuessler gives probable Sino-Tibetan etymologies for both Chinese words. "Yin"