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黄 kanji
yellow
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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On readings
コウオウ
Kun readings
きこ-
Variant forms
黃Words with 黄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —黄河Yellow River (China)
- —黄禍Yellow Peril (alleged threat to Western civilization posed by East Asians); harm caused by dumping human waste from train toilets onto the track
- —黄海Yellow Sea
- —黄口greenhorn; youthfulness and lack of experience
- —黄砂yellow sand; yellow dust; Asian dust; dust carried on high winds from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan; loess; desert
- —黄熟ripening and turning yellow
- —黄梢spring of yellow buds
- —黄塵dust (in air)
- —黄雀tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
- —黄鳥Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
- —黄白yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption
- —黄吻young and inexperienced person
- —黄道ecliptic
- —黄熱yellow fever
- —黄緯celestial latitude; ecliptic latitude
- —黄人yellow-skinned person; Oriental
- —玄黄black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth
- —黄経ecliptic longitude; celestial longitude
- —黄鐘1st note of the traditional Chinese chromatic scale (approx. D); eleventh lunar month
- —黄繭yellow cocoon