The kanji 黄: meaning, readings and stroke order
黄
- Meaning
- yellow
- On reading
- コウ kou、オウ ou
- Kun reading
- き ki、こ* ko
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 黄 yellow
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
- Old form
- 黃
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- màu vàng (hoàng)
- Japanese
- きいろ。
- Korean
- 노랗다, 노란색 (황)
- Chinese
- 黄色
Readings, words and example sentences
コウ kou · on reading · less common
黄土
yellow earth, ocher
黄土の 色を した 山です。
It is a mountain the color of yellow earth.
オウ ou · on reading
黄金
gold
話の 中で 黄金の 玉を 見つけます。
In the story, someone finds a golden ball.
き ki · kun reading
黄色
yellow
野原に 黄色の 花が さきました。
Yellow flowers bloomed in the field.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.