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  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
yellow / pornographic / to fall through
HSK 2
yellow / vulgar; lewd; pornographic
HSK 2
gold / golden (opportunity) / prime (time)
HSK 4
cucumber / CL: 條|条
HSK 4
dusk / evening / nightfall
HSK 7-9
campaign against pornography
Yellow Pages
Huangpu District, Guangzhou / Whampoa (old transliteration) / Guangdong Harbor
Huangpi district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
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  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
surname Huang or Hwang
Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
Huang Guangyu (1969-), PRC entrepreneur and millionaire, founder of GOME Electrical 國美電器|国美电器
butter / CL:
soybean
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
Yellow Sea
macula lutea (anatomy, central area of retina) / yellow spot
Huangdao district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong
flavone
huangqi / milk vetch root (used in TCM) / Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus mongholicus
rhubarb (botany)
the Yellow Emperor, mythological emperor of China, reigned c. 2697-2597 BC
yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl)
Yellow River or Huang He
wasp
egg yolk
Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), rhizome used in medicine
Chinese divination almanac
Huangshan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
jaundice
refers to the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
"yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm)
corpus luteum (glands in female mammals producing progesterone)
beige
mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor / Huangling county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
golden age
bezoar
Huangmei county in Huanggang 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei
wampee (Clausena lansium)
Huangzhou district of Huanggang city 黃岡市|黄冈市, Hubei
(astronomy) the ecliptic
prime time
the ovary and digestive glands of a female crab (eaten as a delicacy)
Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui)
turmeric
Neihuang county in Anyang 安陽|安阳, Henan
yellow croaker (fish)
orange yellow / tangerine yellow / chrome yellow
brass (alloy of copper 銅|铜 and zinc 鋅|锌)
Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼 in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁 in Nanchang, Jiangxi
the Yellow Springs / the underworld of Chinese mythology / the equivalent of Hades or Hell
tan (color) / tawny
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia glutinosa), its rhizome used in TCM
realgar / red orpiment
lit. the divine steed Feihuang gallops (idiom) / fig. to achieve meteoric success in one's career
adult movie / pornographic movie
pornographic book
Huangyan district of Taizhou city 台州市, Zhejiang
(sports) yellow card / (fig.) admonishment
Huangping county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州, Guizhou
yellow oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
(bird species of China) Eurasian siskin (Spinus spinus)
Yihuang county in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi
ephedrine
yellow soybean paste (fermented and salted)
lutein (biochemistry)
Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) / cork-tree bark (Chinese medicine)
sallow / yellow and withered / sickly
ephedra (genus Ephedra)
descendants of the Fiery Emperor and the Yellow Emperor (i.e. Han Chinese people)
the yellow race; the Mongoloid race
light yellow
liquor; booze / murky, muddy water
Wong Tai Sin district of Kowloon, Hong Kong
lit. to take the yellow gown (idiom) / fig. to be made emperor / to take the crown
Mongolian gazelle / Procapra gutturosa
lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop / temporary deficit in manpower or resources / unable to make ends meet
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) (CL:條|条)
rickshaw
lit. to directly attack Huanglong / fig. to directly combat the root of a problem
faded old woman
Beijing opera (or styles of song in) / abbr. for 西皮二黃|西皮二黄
lit. face yellow and body emaciated (idiom) / fig. malnourished and sickly in appearance
beeswax
Huangshigang district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei
egg yolk
jute (Corchorus capsularis Linn.) / plant fiber used for rope or sacks
yellow croaker (fish) / corvina
mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)
light brown
lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom) / fig. outdated / thing of the past / dead letter
dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and power / pipe dream

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