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黄 — yellow; pornographic

yellow; pornographic; to fall through

Pinyin
huáng · Huáng
Strokes
11
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — huáng, Huáng — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 黄: 11 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

黄 — 11 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 黄 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 黄色huángsèyellow; vulgar; lewd; pornographicHSK 3
  2. 黄瓜huángguācucumberHSK 5
  3. 黄金huángjīngold; golden; primeHSK 5
  4. 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall throughHSK 6
  5. 黄昏huánghūndusk; evening; nightfallHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.