HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Adjectives

黄色 huángsè “yellow” in Chinese

Traditional 黃色

What 黄色 means

  1. yellow

How to say 黄色

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale色sè4th tone, falling

黄色 in a sentence

  1. 我喜欢黄色。

    Wǒ xǐhuan huángsè.

    I like yellow.

    Sentence #8853706 from Tatoeba

  2. 柠檬是黄色的。

    Níngméng shì huángsè de.

    Lemons are yellow.

    Sentence #8934444 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 穿黄色雨衣的女孩是谁？

    Chuān huángsè yǔyī de nǚhái shì shéi?

    Who’s the girl in the yellow raincoat?

    Sentence #6633914 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 黄色 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 色 (sè) with each of its parts in a different colour
色sècolour
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 巴to desire · bā

How to write 黄色

黄 11 strokes · 色 6 strokes

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

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

Words related to 黄色

Words with 黄

黄河huánghé · Yellow River黄金huángjīn · gold黄昏huánghūn · dusk

Words with 色

颜色yánsè · colour白色báisè · white黑色hēisè · black红色hóngsè · red (colour)绿色lǜsè · green景色jǐngsè · scenery出色chūsè · remarkable角色juésè · role色彩sècǎi · colour特色tèsè · distinctive feature

More words: Adjectives

不同bùtóng · different不行bùxíng · won’t do急jí · anxious大小dàxiǎo · size有用yǒuyòng · useful常见chángjiàn · common常用chángyòng · commonly used难看nánkàn · ugly

FAQs

黄色 (huángsè) means “yellow”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it huángsè: huáng with a 2nd tone, then sè with a 4th 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, 黄色 is written 黃色. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huangse with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 黄色 from the suggestions. Typing huangse into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
黄色 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older 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.