Kanji
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yellow; amber
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
underground spring; Hades; hell; underworld
ocher (colour); ochre
Yellow river (in China)
loess; yellow ochre; yellow ocher; (arch.) Hades; (arch.) hell
Yellow Turban Rebellion (China; 184 CE)
yellow race; Mongoloid race
dust (in air)
plane of the ecliptic
yellow sand; yellow dust; loess; desert
autumn colours; fall colors; leaves turning red; red leaves; leaves turning yellow; yellow leaves; (Japanese) maple (Acer japonicum)
pale yellow; light yellow
yellow fever
yellowish-white; pale yellow
yellow and white; gold and silver; bribery; corruption
pale yellow; light yellow
Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
ripening and turning yellow
Heaven is black and earth is yellow; heaven and earth
greenhorn; youthfulness and lack of experience
yellow flower; plant with yellow flowers; chrysanthemum; rapeseed flowers
Yellow River civilization; Huang civilization; cradle of Chinese civilization
yellow flag (esp. in motorsport)
wax tree (Toxicodendron succedaneum); Japanese wax tree
ecliptic longitude; celestial longitude
huangjiu; undistilled Chinese alcohol made of fermented grains
very auspicious day for all types of occasions
Yellow Peril (argument); theory that East Asians are a danger to the Western world
yellow person; oriental
rising cloud of (yellowish) dust
black and yellow silk (offered to gods); heaven and earth
company union; yellow union
falling of the yellow leaves and nuts (in autumn)
tree sparrow (Passer montanus)
chrome yellow
yellow soil; loess; (arch.) Hades; (arch.) hell; (arch.) underworld
yellow beeswax
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
fleeting nature of riches and honour (honor)
yellow sand phenomenon (dust carried on high winds from China)
longitude of the ascending node
southeasterly wind blowing around the fifth month of the lunisolar calendar (when marine fishes allegedly turn into tree sparrows)
yellow dog contract (employment contract which forbids the employee to join a labor union)
yellow jasper; beryl
Chinese yellow cattle
1st note of the traditional Chinese chromatic scale (approx. D); eleventh lunar month
Yellow Peril (alleged threat to Western civilization posed by East Asians); harm caused by dumping human waste from train toilets onto the track
celestial latitude; ecliptic latitude
spring of yellow buds
yellow cocoon
young and inexperienced person