沧
(bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold
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How 沧 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 仓 (phonetic, cāng)
How to remember it
dark blue · Heisig RSH #3013
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 仓
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 仓 (cāng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仓 sound component | cāng | granary, barn; cabin, berth |
| 枪 | qiāng | gun, rife; lance, spear |
| 创 | chuàng | to establish, to create; cut, wound, trauma |
| 苍 | cāng | dark blue; deep green; old, hoary |
| 抢 | qiǎng | urgent, rushed; to rob, to plunder |
| 疮 | chuāng | boil, tumor; wound, sore |
| 呛 | qiàng | choking, as by smoke; something that irritates the nose or throat |
| 跄 | qiàng | to stagger, to stumble |
| 戗 | qiāng | to support |
| 怆 | chuàng | sad, disconsolate, broken-hearted |
| 鸧 | cāng | oriole |
| 炝 | qiàng | to stir-fry; to cook in sauce |
Words containing 沧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海沧区 | Hǎi cāng Qū | Haicang, a district of Xiamen City 廈門市|厦门市[Xia4 men2 Shi4], Fujian |
| 曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云 | céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què Wū Shān bù shì yún | there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed … |
| 沧州市 | Cāng zhōu Shì | Cangzhou, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3] |
| 沧龙科 | cāng lóng kē | (zoology) family Mosasauridae |
| 沧源县 | Cāng yuán Xiàn | see 滄源佤族自治縣|沧源佤族自治县[Cang1 yuan2 Wa3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 临沧市 | Lín cāng Shì | Lincang, prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3] |
| 李沧区 | Lǐ cāng Qū | Licang, a district of Qingdao City 青島市|青岛市[Qing1 dao3 Shi4], Shandong |
| 沧源佤族自治县 | Cāng yuán Wǎ zú Zì zhì xiàn | Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, in Lincang City 臨滄市|临沧市[Lin2 cang1 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 沧海遗珠 | cāng hǎi yí zhū | undiscovered talent (idiom) |
| 沧海桑田 | cāng hǎi sāng tián | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); fig. the transformations of the wor… |
| 沧县 | Cāng Xiàn | Cang County or Cangxian, a county in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 曾经沧海 | céng jīng cāng hǎi | lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom); fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of… |
| 海沧 | Hǎi cāng | see 海滄區|海沧区[Hai3 cang1 Qu1] |
| 沧龙 | cāng lóng | (zoology) mosasaur |
| 沧州 | Cāng zhōu | see 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4] |
| 澜沧拉祜族自治县 | Lán cāng Lā hù zú Zì zhì xiàn | Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, in Pu'er City 普洱市[Pu3 er3 Shi4], Yunnan |
| 历尽沧桑 | lì jìn cāng sāng | to have been through the hardships of life; to have been through the mill |
| 沧桑感 | cāng sāng gǎn | a sense of having been through good times and bad; a weathered and worn look |
| 饱经沧桑 | bǎo jīng cāng sāng | having lived through many changes |
| 沧源 | Cāng yuán | see 滄源佤族自治縣|沧源佤族自治县[Cang1 yuan2 Wa3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |