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烂草黄

爛草黃
làncǎohuáng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (fragment / dialect) descriptive term meaning "rotten-grass yellow" — a dull brownish-yellow colour used for hides, feathers, hair, or dried-plant colouration, especially in livestock and regional agricultural contexts

Examples

这头牛的毛色是烂草黄。
Zhè tóu niú de máosè shì làncǎohuáng.
This ox's coat is a rotten-grass yellow.
秋末田里一片烂草黄。
Qiūmò tián lǐ yī piàn làncǎohuáng.
At the end of autumn the fields are a sweep of rotten-grass yellow.

Tips

usage
Not in CC-CEDICT or Xinhua. 烂草黄 is a compositional colour term (烂草 "rotten grass" + 黄 "yellow"), used in livestock-hide grading, dyeing, and dialectal description. It almost certainly entered the THUOCL Sina-News "animal" list through hide/wool/coat-colour reports rather than as a settled lexeme.

Stroke Order

烂 làn
草 cǎo
黄 huáng