The Chinese word for yellow is
黄色

huáng sè

Chinese Definition

yellow
1. 形容词. 比较级 yellower，最高级 yellowest。
2. 形容词. 黄的，黄色的
pale yellow flowers　淡黄色的花朵
a bright yellow waterproof jacket　明黄色的防水夹克
3. 形容词. （轻蔑语）黄皮肤的，黄色人种的
4. 形容词. 胆怯的
5. 名词. 黄，黄色
She was dressed in yellow.　她穿着黄衣服。
the reds and yellows of the trees　红色和黄色的树叶
6. 动词. （使）变黄
Components
黄
1. Variant of 黃
色
1. color; tint; hue; shade
顏色 - color
顏色shǎi兒r - color
紅色 - red
四.色.定理 - four color theorem
2. look; expression
臉色 - facial expression
3. scenery; circumstance
景色 - scenery
夜色 - night scenery
4. kind; sort
貨色 - goods; stuff; trash; rubbish; quality of goods; specification
5. feminine charm; beauty
姿色 - good looks (of women)
6. lust; sexual desire
好hào色 - to lust for women
色情 - pornography; sexual desire
7. (colloquial) perverted; being a pervert; lecherous
8. theatrical role
角jué色 - role; part
9. metallic content
成色 - purity (of a precious metal in an alloy)
10. die (a cube with numbers or symbols on each side, used in games of chance)
色shǎi子zi - die
11. (Buddhism) (l-lite, pi, rūpa) (form; material element; form of existence; etc.)
色即是空，空即是色。 - Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
12. (transgender slang) Short for 色普龍; cypro (cyproterone acetate)

黃
1. yellow (colour)
黃色 (huángsè) - yellow color
2. yolk
雙黃wong4-2 白蓮蓉月餅 - double yolk and lotus paste mooncake
3. Short for 蟹黃
4. yellow; Far East Asian
5. (colloquial) pornographic; lewd
黃片 (huángpiàn) - adult movie
6. (colloquial) to fizzle out; to fall through
某些公司真是shi 絕了，收啥黃啥。 (Mǒuxiē gōngsī zhēn shi jué le, shōu shá huáng shá.) - Some companies are really sucktastic; whatever they purchase flops.
這zhèi.次旅遊的興致zhi 讓扒手兒r 給攪黃了。 (Zhèi cì lǚyóu de xìngzhi ràng páshǒur gěi jiǎo huáng le.) - The high spirit of this trip was ruined by a pickpocket., M-UIB
7. (Cantonese) to let the cat out of the bag (to let a secret be known)
8. (Hong Kong, politics) supportive of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement
9. (Min Nan) to ripen
10. Short for 黃帝
11. Short for 黃河, Yellow River
^黃 ^宗-羲 (Huáng Zōngxī) - Huang Zongxi (Chinese intellectual and political theorist that lived during the latter part of the Ming dynasty into the early part of the Qing)
^黃Ûiⁿ ^蕙Hūi-蘭 (Ûiⁿ Hūi-lân) - Oei Hui-lan (a Chinese-Indonesian socialite and First Lady of the Republic of China), MN