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human skin color

skin color of an individual as a result of genetics
Class type of: color, skin pigmentation Q853516
human skin color
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Facts

5 properties
Instance of
color in nature, human variability[4]
Subclass of
color, skin pigmentation
Different from
Flesh color[6]
Studied by
biology of colour[7]
Used by
race[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en human skin color en skin tone en skin pigmentation en skin color en human skin pigmentation ar لون جلد الإنسان cs barva lidské kůže da hudfarve de Teint de Hautfarbe el Χρώμα δέρματος en-gb skin tone en-gb human skin colour en-gb human skin pigmentation en-gb skin colour es color de piel fa رنگ پوست انسان fi ihmisen ihonväri fi ihon väri fi ihonväri
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85028612
GND ID
4159296-7
OpenAlex ID
C3018637512, C3019497199
BBC Things ID
7b3cdd7c-bb22-4617-9f2b-488fb19081c7
Freebase ID
/m/09h4g
Harper's tag
human-skin-color
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
skin-color
KBpedia ID
SkinPigmentation
MeSH descriptor ID
D012880
MeSH tree code
E01.370.600.115.450.500, E01.370.600.620.750, G07.100.175.500, G13.750.837, G16.690.890
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007284738905171
National Library of Latvia ID
000178872
Show all 19 identifiers +7
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX551932
ScienceDirect topic ID
agricultural-and-biological-sciences/skin-color, psychology/skin-color, nursing-and-health-professions/skin-color, medicine-and-dentistry/skin-color, immunology-and-microbiology/skin-color, biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/skin-color
Topic's main category
Category:Human skin color
UMLS CUI
C0037290
WikiKids ID
Huidskleur
YSO ID
22221
Yale LUX ID
concept/7fe111e6-ad71-4f7f-b9a3-2c47bd07c1f8

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🔗 Connections
Examples 3
light skin, olive skin, dark skin
Subclass of 1
color
Topic's main category 1
Category:Human skin color
Used by 1
race
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Human skin color
← Does not have characteristic 1
color-blind casting
← Facet of 1
white people
← Has characteristic 1
human skin
← Has use 1
Von Luschan's chromatic scale
← Main subject 1
Americanah
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Summary

human skin color is a color in nature[1]. It is a type of color[2] and skin pigmentation[3].

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  4. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16d ago · Chalmd · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BBC Things ID → 7b3cdd7c-bb22-4617-9f2b-488fb19081c7
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ BBC Things ID: 7b3cdd7c-bb22-4617-9f2b-488fb19081c7, Adding BBC Things ID"
  2. 5w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'br', 'bs', 'de', 'diq', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gd',
    Sitelink count → 46
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||tg, ha */ import labels from sitelinks"
  3. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → human-skin-color
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: human-skin-color, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933518|human skin color (#289933518)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  4. 10w ago · Geagea · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0) → XX551932
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX551932, Moving from Category:Human skin color"
  5. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Studied by → biology of colour
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → color, skin pigmentation
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ YSO ID: 22221, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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