huáng
yellow
Original meaning:
physically impaired
Pictograph of a person with a person with a large belly, representing someone deformed. Based on the original meaning "physically impaired". Later meaning shifted to "yellow; sallow", a skin color associated with illness.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 黃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
yellow | ||
gold | ||
yellow (color) | ||
butter | ||
Yellow River or Huang He |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*N-kʷˤaŋ | hwang | huáng | yellow |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 29.4410% of movies
1142nd most common character in movies
561st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9EC3 |
Shuowen | “黃，地之色也。从田，从炗，炗亦聲。炗，古文光。，古文黃。” |
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