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

• Appendix:Chinese radical/黃
• 僙, 墴, 嫹, 彉, 撗, 潢, 獚, 曂, 䐵, 熿, 𤖖, 𤗶, 𤛥, 璜, 穔, 𧝒, 䊣, 䌙, 蟥, 觵, 趪, 䤑, 䪄, 䬝, 䮲, 鱑, 䵃, 𨝴, 斢, 𤮏, 𩙁, 鷬, 𡐳, 廣, 癀, 簧, 𨶰 (Exception: Contains 黃 in all regions except mainland China which contains simplified 黄)
• (Contains 黃 in all regions)
• (Exception: All regions except mainland China and Vietnam which contains 黄)
• (Exception: Contains 黃 for Taiwan glyph and 黄 for Vietnam glyph)

• 黄 (Japanese shinjitai and Simplified Chinese)

Wikisource

• KangXi: page 1516, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47926
• Dae Jaweon: page 2046, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4596, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9EC3

Historical forms of the character 黃
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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.

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.

According to Shuowen, it is both a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷaːŋ) and ideogrammic compound (會意) : 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 likely erroneous as 廿 at the top was formed as a result of corruption of 口 in the bronze inscription.

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).

黃

1. yellow (colour)

   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 wong^4-2 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

   • 無論紅黃黑白種，都是耶穌心寶貝，耶穌喜愛世上所有的小孩。 [MSC, trad.]
     无论红黄黑白种，都是耶稣心宝贝，耶稣喜爱世上所有的小孩。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1985, 耶穌喜愛小孩 (Jesus Loves the Little Children), in 《教會聖詩》 (Hymns for God's People)

     Wúlùn hóng huáng hēi bái zhǒng, dōu shì Yēsū xīn bǎobèi, Yēsū xǐ'ài shìshàng suǒyǒu de xiǎohái. [Pinyin]

     Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight—Jesus loves the little children of the world. [original English lyrics]
     No matter red, yellow, black, white, they are all treasured in Jesus' heart—Jesus loves all the children of the world. [literal English translation]

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

   See also: 黃絲

9. (Min Nan) 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／黄蕙兰 [Hokkien]  ―  Ûiⁿ Hūi-lân [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  Oei Hui-lan (a Chinese-Indonesian socialite and First Lady of the Republic of China)

Others:

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

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黄)

1. Kyūjitai form of 黄

• 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)

黃 (eumhun 누를 황 (nureul hwang))

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

黃: Hán Việt readings: hoàng[1][2][3][4][5][6], huỳnh[2][5][7]
黃: Nôm readings: vàng[7][6]

1. chữ Hán form of hoàng (“yellow”).
2. Nôm form of vàng (“yellow; gold”).