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See also: 黄 and 冓
黃 U+9EC3, 黃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EC3
← 黂
[U+9EC2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 黄 →
[U+9EC4]
⿈ U+2FC8, ⿈
KANGXI RADICAL YELLOW
← ⿇
[U+2FC7] 		Kangxi Radicals ⿉ →
[U+2FC9]

Translingual

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Han character

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Radical 201 黃

黃 (Kangxi radical 201, 黃+0, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一田金 (TMWC), four-corner 44806, composition ⿱⿱廿一⿱由八(GHJK) or ⿱⿱廿一⿱田八(T))

  1. Kangxi radical #201, ⿈.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №486

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (黃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Chi (2010) proposes that 黃 was originally a pictogram (象形) and the original character of 尪 (OC *qʷaːŋ, “a disabled person with a protruding chest or abdomen”). It has been phonetically borrowed for "yellow" since the era of the oracle bone script. He (1998) noted the possible ritual of burning disabled people with a protruding chest or abdomen to pray for rain as mentioned in Zuozhuan. The 口 in the upper part of the bronze inscription of 黃 might be depicting the disabled person's face facing upwards. Compare 堇.

Li (2012), on the other hand, proposes that 黃 was originally a pictogram (象形) and the original character of 璜 (OC *ɡʷaːŋ, “semicircular jade”) as the 口 in the oracle bone script resembles a ring of jade, so the character would carry the meaning of "a man wearing a ring of jade on his chest". The meaning "yellow" is the result of rebus. See also the original version of 周, which represents carved jade.

According to Shuowen, it is both a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 炗 (“light”) + semantic 田 (“field”) – the color of earth, with 炗 being the ancient form of 光 (OC *kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs, “light”). However, this interpretation is erroneous as 廿 at the top was formed as a result of corruption of 口 in the bronze inscription.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwaŋ (“shine; bright; yellow”). Cognate with 光 (OC *kʷaːŋ, *kʷaːŋs, “light; bright”), 曠 (OC *kʰʷaːŋs, “bright; well-lit”), Burmese ဝင်း (wang:, “bright”), Burmese ဝါ (wa, “yellow”).

“sexually obscene; pornographic”
Back-formation from 黃色 / 黄色 (huángsè).

Pronunciation

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Note: huángr - (1) “yolk”, (2) “the ovaries, roe and digestive tract of a female crab”.
Note: wong4-2 - “yolk”.
Note:
  • ng2 - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • horng2 - literary.
  • Dialectal data

Definitions

黃

  1. yellow
    黃色／黄色  ―  'huángsè  ―  yellow color
  2. yolk
    雙黃白蓮蓉月餅 [Cantonese, trad.]
    双黄白莲蓉月饼 [Cantonese, simp.]
    soeng1 wong4-2 baak6 lin4 jung4 jyut6 beng2 [Jyutping]
    double yolk and lotus paste mooncake
  3. Short for 蟹黃／蟹黄 (xièhuáng).
  4. yellow; Far East Asian
  5. (colloquial) pornographic,lewd
    黃片／黄片  ―  huángpiàn  ―  adult movie
  6. (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through
    某些公司真是絕了，收啥黃啥。 [MSC, trad.]
    某些公司真是绝了，收啥黄啥。 [MSC, simp.]
    Mǒuxiē gōngsī zhēn shi jué le, shōu shá huáng shá. [Pinyin]
    Some companies are really sucktastic; whatever [they] purchase flops.
    這次旅遊的興致讓扒手兒給攪黃了。 [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
    这次旅游的兴致让扒手儿给搅黄了。 [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]
    Zhèi cì lǚyóu de xìngzhi ràng páshǒur gěi jiǎo huáng le. [Pinyin]
    The high spirit of this trip was ruined by a pickpocket.
  7. (Cantonese) to let the cat out of the bag (to let a secret be known)
  8. (Hong Kong, politics) supportive of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement
    Antonym: 藍 / 蓝 (lán)
    See also: 黃絲
  9. (Southern Min) to ripen
  10. Short for 黃帝／黄帝 (Huángdì).
  11. Short for 黃河／黄河 (Huáng Hé, “Yellow River”).
  12. a surname
    黃宗羲／黄宗羲  ―  Huáng Zōngxī  ―  Huang Zongxi (Chinese intellectual and political theorist that lived during the latter part of the Ming dynasty into the early part of the Qing)
    黃蕙蘭 [Hokkien, trad.]
    黄蕙兰 [Hokkien, simp.]
    Ûiⁿ Hūi-lân [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
    Oei Hui-lan (a Chinese-Indonesian socialite and First Lady of the Republic of China)

Synonyms

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Dialectal synonyms of 蛋黃 (“egg yolk”) [map]

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (黃):
  • → Japanese: 黄(おう) (ō); 黄(こう) (kō)
  • → Korean: 황(黃) (Hwang)
  • → Vietnamese: Huỳnh (黃), Hoàng (黃)

Others:

  • → English: Huang, Wong, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oei, Ooi
  • → Malay: Oey, Oei
  • → Tagalog: Ng, Uy, Wee
  • → Vietnamese: vàng
  • → Proto-Mien: *ʔgʷi̯əŋᴬ (“bright”)

Compounds

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Japanese

Shinjitai

 黄

Kyūjitai

 黃

Kanji

黃

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黄)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 黄

Readings

  • Go-on: おう (ō)←わう (wau, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō)←くわう (kwau, historical)
  • Kun: き (ki, 黃)、こ (ko, 黃)
  • Nanori: うい (ui)、かつみ (katsumi)、れい (rei)

Korean

Hanja

黃 (eumhun 누를 황 (nureul hwang))

  1. hanja form? of 황 (“yellow; a surname”)

Vietnamese

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