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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
cucumber / CL: 條|条
HSK 4
dusk / evening / nightfall
HSK 7-9
Huangyan district of Taizhou city 台州市, Zhejiang
(bird species of China) bay woodpecker (Blythipicus pyrrhotis)
huangqi / milk vetch root (used in TCM) / Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus mongholicus
(bird species of China) yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii)
butter / CL:
(bird species of China) yellow bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)
Huangpi district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市, Hubei
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *黄* | 黄* | *黄
surname Huang or Hwang
(bird species of China) green-eared barbet (Psilopogon faiostrictus)
Huanglong county in Yan'an 延安, Shaanxi
a slogan used in reference to a project to improve greenery in some parts of Northern China
Huangshan, a district of Huangshan City 黃山市|黄山市, Anhui
Huang Guangyu (1969-), PRC entrepreneur and millionaire, founder of GOME Electrical 國美電器|国美电器
soybean
the Yellow River basin
(bird species of China) citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola)
loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)
corpus luteum (glands in female mammals producing progesterone)
Yellow Sea
Huangmei county in Huanggang 黃岡|黄冈, Hubei
Huangdao district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong
Huangyan Island (in the South China Sea)
flavone
Huang Binhong (1865-1955), art historian and literati painter
abiu (Pouteria caimito)
Huangmei opera (local opera of Anhui)
Yellow River or Huang He
(bird species of China) lesser yellownape (Picus chlorolophus)
Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), rhizome used in medicine
jaundice
Huang Ju (1938-2007), Chinese politician
yellow chrysanthemum / wine
refers to the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
yellow soybean paste (fermented and salted)
"yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm)
Huang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
golden age
wampee (Clausena lansium)
Huangzhou district of Huanggang city 黃岡市|黄冈市, Hubei
(astronomy) the ecliptic
tribes under the Yellow Emperor
wasp
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
prime time
xanthan / xanthanate gum (polysaccharide food additive used as a thickener)
former Hwanghae Province of northwest Korea, divided into North and South Hwanghae Province of North Korea in 1954
yellow croaker (fish)
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)
adult movie / pornographic movie
pornographic book
Huangyan district of Taizhou city 台州市, Zhejiang
(sports) yellow card / (fig.) admonishment
rickshaw
Chinese divination almanac
yellow oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
ox; cattle / scalper of tickets etc / (dialect) to fail to show up / (dialect) to break a promise
Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) / cork-tree bark (Chinese medicine)
the yellow race; the Mongoloid race
Huangshan, prefecture-level city in Anhui Province 安徽省
liquor; booze / murky, muddy water
Wong Tai Sin district of Kowloon, Hong Kong
yellow-green
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)
lit. to take the yellow gown (idiom) / fig. to be made emperor / to take the crown
Mongolian gazelle / Procapra gutturosa
Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) (CL:條|条)
(bird species of China) narcissus flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina)
(bird species of China) European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
(bird species of China) mountain scops owl (Otus spilocephalus)
beeswax
jute (Corchorus capsularis Linn.) / plant fiber used for rope or sacks
Huang Xin, character in The Water Margin
yellow croaker (fish) / corvina
mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)
Huangshigang district of Huangshi city 黃石市|黄石市, Hubei
dream of golden millet / fig. illusions of wealth and power / pipe dream
favus of the scalp (skin disease)
Yellow hat or Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism / also written 格魯派|格鲁派
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD
(bird species of China) yellow-breasted bunting (Emberiza aureola)
variant of 黃檗|黄檗
pornography / the psychological harm of pornography
Huangpu District, Guangzhou / Whampoa (old transliteration) / Guangdong Harbor

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