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黄河 huánghé “Yellow River” in Chinese

Traditional 黃河

What 黄河 means

  1. Yellow River
  2. Yellow River or Huang He

How to say 黄河

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale黄huáng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale河hé2nd tone, rising

黄河 in a sentence

  1. 四月底，黄河的水发黑了。

    Sìyuè dǐ, Huánghé de shuǐ fā hēi le.

    At the end of April, the water of the Yellow River turned dark.

    Sentence #2367593 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 黄河 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 黄 (huáng) drawn as one shape
黄huángyellow

黄 is a single shape of 11 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 河 (hé) with each of its parts in a different colour
河hériver 条,道)
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 可may · kěSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 可 (kě) hints at the sound. Compare it with hé.

How to write 黄河

黄 11 strokes · 河 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

黄河 (huánghé) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 黄河 (huánghé). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 黄河

Words with 黄

黄色huángsè · yellow黄金huángjīn · gold黄昏huánghūn · dusk

Words with 河

河hé · river

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FAQs

黄河 (huánghé) means “Yellow River” or “Yellow River or Huang He”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it huánghé: huáng with a 2nd tone, then hé with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 黄河 is written 黃河. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huanghe with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 黄河 from the suggestions. Typing huanghe into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
黄河 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.