Traditional form
黃河Part of speech
Place name / 地名 dì míng Dìmíng 黄 Huáng
Type
pictographicExplanation
Simplified form of 黃 huáng . Pictograph of a person with a person with a large belly, representing someone deformed. Based on the original meaning "physically impaired". Later meaning shifted to "yellow; sallow", a skin color associated with illness.Positional decomposition
⿱?⿱由八Number of Strokes
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