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黄 kanji
yellow
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
コウオウ
Kun readings
きこ-
Variant forms
黃Words with 黄
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —黄壌yellow soil; loess; Hades; hell; underworld; world of the dead
- —黄粱foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
- —黄落falling of the yellow leaves and nuts (in autumn)
- —黄旗yellow flag (esp. in motorsport)
- —淡黄pale yellow; light yellow
- —蛋黄egg yolk
- —黄龍yellow dragon
- —黄葉leaves turning yellow (in autumn); yellow leaves; golden leaves; autumn colours; fall colors
- —黄口児immature youth
- —黄道光zodiacal light
- —黄道色brassy yellow
- —黄道帯zodiac
- —黄道面plane of the ecliptic
- —黄碧玉yellow jasper; beryl
- —淡黄色pale yellow; light yellow
- —帯黄色yellowish (color)
- —橙黄色orange (colour)
- —黄雀風southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)
- —黄禍論Yellow Peril (argument); theory that East Asians are a danger to the Western world
- —黄道座標ecliptic coordinates