cí​huáng

orpiment

Senses

雌黄/ 雌黃 cí​huáng (also cī​huáng) orpiment

A lemon-yellow mineral used as a pigment; in ancient times, it was used to paint over errors on yellow paper, similar to modern correction fluid.

雌黄/ 雌黃 cí​huáng (also cī​huáng) to edit a text

To make changes or corrections to a piece of writing, derived from the historical use of orpiment as correction fluid

雌黄/ 雌黃 cí​huáng (also cī​huáng) to criticize groundlessly

To offer baseless criticism or comments while disregarding the facts

References

synonym 雌黄/雌黃 信口雌黄/信口雌黃
see 铅黄/鉛黃 雌黄/雌黃