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部首 201yellow

huáng (second tone, rising)

yellow

部首 20112 画0 汉字

Also written — the same radical in a different position inside the character.

Where the shape comes from

The word for yellow, one of the five classical colours and, by long association, the colour of the earth itself in Chinese thought — old accounts disagree on the picture behind it, some reading a person wearing a ceremonial jade pendant, others a field or a fire-tipped arrow, without settling the question. What is certain is its reach: it names the 黄河, the Yellow River, whose silt-laden water gives it its colour and its name, and 黄金, gold, yellow metal.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.