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Simplified Traditional Ancient forms Archaic forms
traditional form

Variants
Phonetic
Semantic
Apparent
火 田 廿
Mandarin
huang2
English
Definitions
yellow; surname; sulfur
Mnemonic
The color of the earth (yellow soil): fields 田 as bright as the light of twenty 廿 fires 火
Etymology
Notes
Probably originally a pictograph of a man with his arms bound (compare 束); sometimes bottom was written 火; middle resembles fields 田; and top was often written 廿