Radical 201

黃 黄
200 ⿇ ◄	201	► ⿉ 202
Pinyin :	huáng (= yellow)
Zhuyin :	ㄏ ㄨ ㄤ ˊ
Hiragana :	き い ろ kiiro kiiro
Kanji :	黄色 kiiro (= yellow)
Hangul :	누를
Sinocorean :	황 slope (= yellow)
Codepoint :	U + 9EC3 9EC4
Stroke sequence :

Radical 201 , meaning “ yellow ”, is one of four of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with twelve lines.

With two combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The original pictogram is difficult to interpret. A man with a torch stands on a yellow floor. It could mean the loess , the mud that the Yellow River deposits. Under the Qing Dynasty , the color yellow was reserved for the imperial house and represented the emperor who was responsible for fertility and drought.

Spelling variant of the radical: 黃, with eleven lines.

Character combinations ruled by radical 201

Yellow River

Strokes	character
+ 00	黃 黄
+ 04	黅 黆
+ 05	黇 黈 黉
+ 06	黊 黋
+13	黌

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals the radical 201 is coded under the code point number 12.232 (U + 2FC8).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 217 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 201  - Graphic representations of Radikal 201