The kanji 黄 primarily means "yellow". It represents the color yellow, and it's used in words related to the color, things of that color, or concepts associated with yellow, such as gold or the sun. The core meaning focuses on this specific color and its associated visual and conceptual links.

・On-yomi (音読み): こう (kō) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): き (ki)

⚫︎黄色（きいろ） Translation: Yellow color ⚫︎黄金（おうごん） Translation: Gold (literally "yellow gold") ⚫︎黄昏（たそがれ） Translation: Dusk (literally "yellow time")

The kanji 黄 is a pictograph. It originally depicted a person (represented by the top part) wearing a garment dyed with yellow ochre or a similar yellow pigment. Over time, the depiction simplified, and it came to represent the color itself.