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黄

Yellow
Stroke count: 11

Readings

On readingコウ、オウ
Kun readingき、こ

Meanings

  1. yellowRtK

Popular Usage

黄色黄色い黄金

Radicals and components

Radical黃yellow
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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salad · sprout · shoot · animal legs (儿) · eight (八)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1887

Compound words

絵の中の少女は黄金ではなくて花のかんむりをかぶっています。おうごん
The girl in the picture is wearing a crown not of gold but of flowers.tatoeba
彼は銀の木がある黄金の都についてすばらしい話を聞いたことがあった。
He had heard wonderful stories about cities of gold with silver trees.tatoeba
彼は黄色いあの家に住んでいる。
He lives in that yellow house.tatoeba
彼の歯は煙草の吸いすぎで黄色くなっている。
His teeth are yellow from smoking too much.tatoeba
彼のシャツは灰色でネクタイは黄色だった。
His shirt was gray and his tie was yellow.tatoeba
梅には黄色いしべがあった。
Japanese plum had a yellow stamen.wiki
卵黄と小麦粉を混ぜて麺を延ばす黄色い素麺。
Yellow somen containing egg yolk and flour.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

黄金の財宝を手に入れた
おうごんのざいほうをてにいれたI obtained golden treasure.
黄色信号は注意して止まるという意味です
きいろしんごうはちゅういしてとまるといういみですA yellow light means to stop carefully.
黒い円盤で、黄色い窓ガラスがいくつも並んでいた。
くろいえんばんで、きいろいまどがらすがいくつもならんでいた。Black disc with several yellow glass windows lined up.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

11 strokes

Yellow. A flaming arrow or a jade pendant — the colour of fire and earth.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 黄

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step