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黄色

huángsè

yellow color

A paint swatch with a brush
Memory picture

Characters in this word

黄 huáng

Strokes
11
Radical
黄 — yellow
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

色 sè

Strokes
6
Radical
色 — color, tint, hue, shade
Made of
⺈ knife 巴 to cling
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 我喜欢黄色。 Wǒ xǐhuan huángsè. I like the color yellow.
  • 黄色书包很大。 Huángsè shūbāo hěn dà. The yellow schoolbag is big.
  • 这是黄色的花。 Zhè shì huángsè de huā. This is a yellow flower.

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