黄

surname Huang or Hwang

黄 = 井 + 由 + 八 : Mnemonic symbol: the Yellow Emperor.

Helga Horse invited the Yellow Emperor to join her visit anglepod. In the kitchen, he falls for her trap: Helga prepared a field of eight balls on which the Yellow Emperor trips. As he falls into the well behind the field of eight balls, Helga neighs and laughs loudly at him.

黄

黃

huáng = hu + ang2

yellow / pornographic / to fall through

黄 character breakdown

黄
- 井
  - 丨
  - 丿
  - 二
    - 一
- 八
  - 丿
  - ㇏
- 由
  - 丨
  - 曰
    - 一
    - 囗

井

jǐng = ji + (e)ng3

a well / CL:口[kou3] / neat / orderly

井 = 二 + 丿 + 丨 : Joan of Arc (ji) is digging a well (井) inside the engine ((e)ng3). At first she was doing it by hand, but then she hooked up a capacitor (二) to a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨), which dig for her using the electrical energy.

由

yóu = y + ou2

to follow / from / because of / due to / by / via / through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...

由 = 丨 + 曰 : Mnemonic symbol: 自由古巴， a cuba libre. The character 由 itself even looks like a cuba libre.

Maud Younger (y) is taking part in a charity auction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). She is auctioning the dinosaur bone (丨) next to her and is speaking into a microphone (曰). In the other hand she is holding a cuba libre (由), and she is already quite drunk.

八

ba̅ = b + a1

eight; 8

八 = 丿 + ㇏ : Mnemonic symbol: an eight-ball.

Beelzebub (b-) wants to find new ways to lure people into playing pool billiard. To this end he is meditating on top of an eight-ball (八) in front of the Ashram (a1). He uses a finger (㇏) and a banana (丿) as incense to create the right atmosphere.

由

yóu = y + ou2

to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...

Characters with 黄 as component

横

橫

héng = h + (e)ng2

horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent

横 = 木 + 黄 : Hamlet (h) climbed on the beam (横) of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and now he is too afraid to come down again. If the Yellow Emperor (黄) doesn't want to call the fire brigade, for better or worse he'll have to climb the Christmas Tree (木) to pick Hamlet up.

横

橫

hèng = h + (e)ng4

harsh and unreasonable / unexpected

广

廣

guǎng = gu + ang3

wide / numerous / to spread

广 = 亠 + 丿 : The English Wiktionary lists "canopy" as a possible meaning, and an example for a canopy is the upper part of a parachute. That's what I'll use to represent this character in other characters. In the anglepod, Gitta Giraffe just invented the art of building a parachute out of berets and bananas, using the berets as canopy and banana peels as strings. Soon, this new sport spreads all over the world as the new thing to do.

广

廣

guǎng = gu + ang3

surname Guang