Yellow

The yellow disc of the Aboriginal flag is the sun, giver of life. The flag was designed by the Luritja artist Harold Thomas and first flown in Adelaide in 1971.

At the gaye holud, held a day or two before a wedding, relatives rub turmeric paste on the bride and groom. Guests dress in yellow and orange.

On Pohela Falgun, the first day of spring, young women wear yellow and orange saris, a shade called basanti, with flowers in their hair.

The Flemish flag is a black lion on yellow, and the Walloon flag a red cockerel on yellow. The language communities are often shown by these colours.

The flag is yellow, the colour of the Sultan. By custom, ordinary people did not wear yellow in the ruler's presence.

The national football team plays in a yellow shirt with green trim, the canarinho. It was chosen in a newspaper contest after the 1950 World Cup final was lost in white.

The yellow diamond of the flag is commonly said to stand for gold. It came from the House of Habsburg, the family of the first empress.

Men wear a long scarf, the kabney, on formal occasions, and its colour shows rank. Saffron yellow is kept for the King and the Je Khenpo, the chief abbot.

Many First Nations use the medicine wheel, a circle in four parts. A common form has yellow, red, black and white quarters for the four directions, though the colours vary between nations.

Yellow was the emperor's colour. Under the Ming and Qing dynasties bright yellow robes and yellow glazed roof tiles, as on the Forbidden City, were reserved for him.

The flag is yellow, blue and red, with the yellow band twice as wide. Yellow is read as the gold and riches of the land, blue as the two oceans and red as the blood of independence.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez kept a yellow rose on his desk for luck, and yellow butterflies follow a lover in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Readers mourned him with yellow paper butterflies.

Yellow is the colour of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, patron of Cuba, and of Ochun, the Santeria spirit of rivers and love. Pilgrims bring her sunflowers.

Yellow is the colour of the liberal Free Democrats. To be "yellow with envy", gelb vor Neid, is the usual German phrase where English says green.

Yellow daisies called adey abeba cover the highlands at the end of the rains in September. Children give bunches of them at Enkutatash, the New Year.

The yellow band of the flag stands for peace and hope. The three colours have flown together since the 1890s, in the reign of Menelik II.

From late 2018, protesters against fuel taxes and living costs wore the yellow high-visibility vests that every driver must carry. They became known as the gilets jaunes.

The leader of the Tour de France wears the yellow jersey. It was introduced in 1919 and matches the yellow paper of L'Auto, the newspaper that ran the race.

In Maya thought each direction has a colour: red for east, white for north, black for west and yellow for south. They match the four colours of maize.

In the 2014 street protests for democracy, people used umbrellas against pepper spray. Yellow umbrellas and ribbons became the movement's sign.

Yellow is the colour of Golkar, the party that ruled through the Suharto years. Its banyan tree symbol sits on a yellow ground.

Since the attack of 7 October 2023, yellow ribbons and yellow chairs have stood for the hostages taken to Gaza and for the demand to bring them home.

People wear yellow for Vasant Panchami, the spring festival of the goddess Saraswati. Before many weddings, turmeric paste is rubbed on the bride and groom in the haldi ceremony.

A crime novel or thriller is called a giallo, a yellow. The name comes from the yellow covers of a series of mysteries that Mondadori began publishing in 1929.

Obangsaek is the set of five traditional colours: blue, red, yellow, white and black, one for each direction and the centre. Yellow is the centre. Children's striped saekdong sleeves use the set.

Parties are known by their colours: yellow for Hezbollah, orange for the Free Patriotic Movement, light blue for the Future Movement, and green for Amal.

The flag is yellow, green and red: yellow for the sun and fields of grain, green for the forests and red for the blood shed for freedom.

The luzzu, the traditional fishing boat, is painted in bright yellow, blue, red and green. A pair of eyes on the bow is said to guard the fishermen at sea.

On New Year's Eve many people wear yellow underwear to bring money in the year ahead, and red to bring love.

Yellow is the colour of Malay royalty. Under old court rules commoners were forbidden to wear it, and the crescent and star on the flag are yellow for the rulers.

Marchers calling for clean elections wear yellow shirts. The movement is called Bersih, which means clean, and before its 2011 rally the government outlawed the shirts.

On New Year's Eve, street stalls in Lima sell yellow underwear, yellow flowers and yellow paper garlands. Wearing yellow at midnight is held to bring good luck.

The yellow bird on the flag is the Raggiana bird of paradise, the national emblem. Its long plumes are worn in headdresses at sing-sings, gatherings where groups dance in full decoration.

Yellow became the colour of opposition to Ferdinand Marcos after Benigno Aquino Jr was killed in 1983. Yellow ribbons and confetti filled Manila in the People Power revolt of 1986.

Basant, the spring kite festival of Lahore and the Punjab, is marked with yellow clothes, the colour of the mustard fields in flower.

The flag is blue, yellow and red. In the 1848 revolution the three were read as liberty, justice and fraternity.

Each day of the week has a colour, and Monday's is yellow. King Bhumibol and King Vajiralongkorn were both born on a Monday, so yellow is worn to honour the monarchy.

The lower band of the flag is yellow, read as fields of ripe wheat under the sky. The two colours go back to the arms of Lviv and medieval Galicia.

Yellow is the colour of the National Resistance Movement, in power since 1986. At election time its supporters wear yellow shirts and buildings are painted yellow.

A yellow ribbon tied round a tree or pinned to a coat means someone is waiting for a loved one to come home. It spread during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981.

School buses across the country are painted one shade of yellow, agreed at a conference in 1939 because black lettering on it is easy to read in early morning light.

The flag is yellow and white, for the gold and silver keys of Saint Peter. It is one of only two square national flags.

The flag is yellow, blue and red, designed by Francisco de Miranda. Yellow is read as the wealth of the land, blue as the sea that separates it from Spain, and red as blood.

Yellow was the colour of the emperors. The Nguyen rulers at Hue wore yellow robes, and yellow was the main colour of their flags.

In the south, families bring home branches of yellow apricot blossom, hoa mai, for Tet. A tree that flowers on New Year's morning is taken as a good sign.