Radical 艹
11 strokes
黃
grass 艹 (218a) + polite
(623a) + eight 八 (20) = yellow 黄
[黄河 (141) Huánghé the Yellow River]

If you take your grass and are polite to the octopus, he will sit on it for you until it goes yellow. / The ghostly fairy will then guard it in the aircraft hangar (until it is ready to sell on the black market — it’s that sort of grass!)