黃
黃 – Huang2 – Yellow
黃色 – Huang2 Se4 – Yellow Color. This also means Obscene, or Pornographic. I guess kind of like how in English we have “blue humor”.
黃瓜 – Huang2 Gua1 – Yellow Melon — Cucumber. But cucumbers aren’t yellow…?
蛋黃 – Dan4 Huang2 – Egg Yellow — Yolk
黃 is also a surname, and is in fact Yvonne’s name.
黃帝 – Huang2 Di4 – Yellow Emperor
I love how in this otherwise factual article about the restoration of the Yellow Emperor’s tomb, the People’s Daily manages to stick in a quick dose of propoganda:
“In addition to the monuments to the return of Hong Kong and Macao, space has been left for a monument commemorating Taiwan’s reunification with the motherland. Our nation must be reunified and no one can stop it,” Shao said.