huáng
yellow
Original meaning:
physically impaired
Simplified form of 黃. 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)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 黄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
yellow | ||
gold | ||
yellow (color) | ||
butter | ||
Yellow River or Huang He |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 29.4410% of movies
1142nd most common character in movies
561st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9EC4 |
Sources
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