黄huáng
Character evolution
黄
Hover to feel · click to explore
Simplified · Today
繁体
Traditional Chinese
← → navigate · swipe on mobile
Shuowen
Yellow. The oracle bone form depicts a person with a large, spreading body, suggesting fullness or pregnancy; the modern character retains this idea with the grass radical (艹) above suggesting the yellowish color of withered grass and earth below. The meaning shifted to "yellow" (the color of soil) in classical Chinese, though the original pictographic sense of expansion or fullness remains embedded in its structure.
Pinyin
huáng· HSK 1