缃

緗
xiāng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 a light yellow color; pale-yellow silk

Examples

HSK 7-9
她穿着一条浅黄色的丝裙。
Tā chuān zhe yì tiáo qiǎnhuángsè de sīqún.
She wore a skirt of pale yellow silk.

Tips

history
缃 is a classical color word for light yellow (and the pale-yellow silk used to wrap scrolls), not used independently in modern Chinese, where you say 浅黄色. Built on the silk radical 纟, it appears in old poetry such as the line about a 'pale-yellow silk skirt'.
register
Classical and literary only. Use 浅黄色 in modern Chinese.

Components

radical
纟 sī
silk; thread
The silk radical 纟 (left-side form of 糸) ties 缃 to dyed silk and is its indexing radical, as in most color-of-cloth characters.
phonetic
相 xiāng
mutual; appearance
The 相 element supplies the sound; the silk radical narrows it to this pale-yellow shade.

Stroke Order

缃 xiāng