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cucumber / CL: 條|条
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
yellow / pornographic / to fall through
HSK 2
yellow / vulgar; lewd; pornographic
HSK 2
gold / golden (opportunity) / prime (time)
HSK 4
lit. the dishes are cold (idiom) / fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time
Huangling county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
Huang Xin, character in The Water Margin
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
abiu (Pouteria caimito)
the yellow race; the Mongoloid race
(bird species of China) yellow-browed tit (Sylviparus modestus)
yellowcake
dusk / evening / nightfall
HSK 7-9
Huangzhou, a district of Huanggang City 黃岡市|黄冈市, Hubei
(bird species of China) yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and glory / pipe dream
butter / CL:
the Yellow Emperor, mythological emperor of China, reigned c. 2697-2597 BC
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD
Whampoa Military Academy
Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC
golden age
yellow bone marrow
Huang Zhong (-220), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, portrayed as an old fighter
maiden / virgin girl
loess landform
Huanghuagang (Chrysanthemum Hill) in Guangzhou, scene of disastrous uprising of 23rd April 1911
Golden Week, two 7-day national holiday periods
Mongolian gazelle / Procapra gutturosa
yellow croaker (fish) / corvina
huangqi / milk vetch root (used in TCM) / Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus mongholicus
(bird species of China) yellow-billed blue magpie (Urocissa flavirostris)
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
prime time
fig. romantic relationship between an elderly couple / falling in love in the autumn of one's life
macula lutea (anatomy, central area of retina) / yellow spot
lit. house made of gold / fig. luxurious residence
Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
Yellow Peril, political novel by Wang Lixiong 王力雄
yellow peril (offensive term referring to the perceived threat to Western nations, of immigration or military expansion from East Asian nations)
yellow green
the seventy two martyrs of the Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911
citron daylily (Hemerocallis citrina Baroni); golden needles (its edible flower)
Huang Binhong (1865-1955), art historian and literati painter
flavone
Huangping, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州, Guizhou
yellow rosewood
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
Loess Plateau of northwest China
Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
silly little girl
Yellow River Cantata (1939) by Xian Xinghai 冼星海
Huang Fugui, ghost of legends who provided Liu Juanzi with his magical recipes 劉涓子鬼遺方|刘涓子鬼遗方
scalped tickets
Huang Ju (1938-2007), Chinese politician
yellow chrysanthemum / wine
yellow soybean paste (fermented and salted)
(bird species of China) yellow-cheeked tit (Machlolophus spilonotus)
Huangguoshu waterfalls, Anshun 安順|安顺, Guizhou
Yellow River or Huang He
jaundice
dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and power / pipe dream
yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl)
black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
yellowish / dirty yellow
Wong Fei-hung (1847-1925), martial arts master
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
surname Huang or Hwang
Huangpu River, major river flowing through Shanghai, dividing the city into Puxi 浦西 (west of the river) and Pudong 浦東|浦东 (east of the river)
Yellow Pages
abiu (Pouteria caimito)
Huang Guangyu (1969-), PRC entrepreneur and millionaire, founder of GOME Electrical 國美電器|国美电器
Huangshan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安順|安顺, Guizhou
Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) / cork-tree bark (Chinese medicine)
yellow fever
adult movie / pornographic movie
favus of the scalp (skin disease)
"Three Strategies of Huang Shigong", one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China
Huangshigang, a district of Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei
soybean
maiden / virgin
Yellow Sea
jaundice
wampee (Clausena lansium)
Huanghuagang uprising of 23rd April 1911 in Guangzhou, one a long series of unsuccessful uprisings of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party
Huang Hua (1913-2010), PRC foreign minister (1976-1982) and vice premier (1980-1982)
lit. croaker car / flatbed tricycle / delivery tricycle
Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
xanthate
(bird species of China) alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
refers to the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
John Huang (1945-), Democratic Party fundraiser
Chinese divination almanac
(sports) yellow card / (fig.) admonishment

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