Yellow in Chinese
yellow · HSK 3
黄色
- 黄 yellow
- 色 color
她买了一把黄色的雨伞。 She bought a yellow umbrella.
Other ways to say yellow
More words with 黄 or 色
How do you say yellow in Chinese?
Yellow in Chinese is 黄色 (huáng sè). You can also say 黄 (huáng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.