What is the most common way to say "yellow" in chinese?

[Malacho]

I found that Yellow River is said 黄河. Is 黄 the most common way? 

Thanks

[Jim]

Yes, certainly hear it used all the time in ordinary speech to describe yellow clothing or other everyday items. There are a few other characters such as http://www.zdic.net/z/21/js/7F03.htm but much rarer in my experience, and also some descriptive terms like lemon 柠檬色 but again not used as generally (and often said as lemon yellow in any case).

[QAQo.]

yellow is translated as 黄色的(adj)/黄色(noun) Chinese, but 黄 is not always translated as yellow. For example, 他姓黄(Huang is his last name.) 黄片(pornographic films)

 

 

 

[DavyJonesLocker]

To describe the color as on a shopping website etc you always  see 黄色

 

Unless sometimes it's things like paint color charts where they use weird and wonderful names, but in English I don't know what these color names refer to either .?

 

Edit, "yellow" has a negative meaning (i.e. Seedy)  also but it's pretty clear from context.

[abcdefg]

"Blue movie" = 黄片 or 黄色电影 (pornographic)

[Luxi]

6 hours ago, DavyJonesLocker said:

Edit, "yellow" has a negative meaning 

 

Yes, but not always.

 

 黄帝，炎黄子孙，黄姓。。。。

[DavyJonesLocker]

1 hour ago, Luxi said:

Yes, but not always.

 

 黄帝，炎黄子孙，黄姓。。。。

 

Indeed, I didn't want to suggest it's the only use.

 

Edit : or in the case of the ongoing world cup, referees are handing out 黄牌