xiāng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) a light yellow color; pale-yellow silk

Examples

Tā chuān zhe yì tiáo qiǎnhuángsè de sī qún.
She wore a skirt of pale yellow silk.

Tips

history
is a classical color word for light yellow (and the pale-yellow silk used to wrap scrolls), not used independently in modern Chinese, where you say 浅黄色. Built on the silk radical , it appears in old poetry such as the line about a 'pale-yellow silk skirt'.
register
Classical and literary only. Use 浅黄色 in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
silk; thread
The silk radical (left-side form of ) ties to dyed silk and is its indexing radical, as in most color-of-cloth characters.
phonetic
xiāng
mutual; appearance
The element supplies the sound; the silk radical narrows it to this pale-yellow shade.

Stroke Order

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