苍
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dark blue; deep green; ash-gray
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How 苍 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “grass”) + 仓 (phonetic, cāng)
How to remember it
ash-colored · Heisig RSH #2455
flower + 仓 storehouse
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 |
| 抢 | qiǎng | urgent, rushed; to rob, to plunder |
| 疮 | chuāng | boil, tumor; wound, sore |
| 沧 | cāng | azure, cold, vast (all as of the sea) |
| 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 苍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苍白无力 | cāng bái wú lì | pale and feeble; powerless |
| 苍南县 | Cāng nán Xiàn | Cangnan, a county in Wenzhou City 溫州市|温州市[Wen1 zhou1 Shi4], Zhejiang |
| 苍白色 | cāng bái sè | pale; wan; sickly white |
| 苍背山雀 | cāng bèi shān què | (bird species of China) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus) |
| 白云苍狗 | bái yún cāng gǒu | lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom); fig. the unpredicta… |
| 白衣苍狗 | bái yī cāng gǒu | lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom); fig. the unpredicta… |
| 苍头燕雀 | cāng tóu yàn què | (bird species of China) Eurasian chaffinch; common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) |
| 苍生 | cāng shēng | (area where) vegetation grows; the common people |
| 苍天 | cāng tiān | firmament |
| 苍白 | cāng bái | pale; wan |
| 上苍 | shàng cāng | Heaven; God |
| 白发苍苍 | bái fà cāng cāng | old and gray-haired |
| 苍南 | Cāng nán | see 蒼南縣|苍南县[Cang1 nan2 Xian4] |
| 苍老 | cāng lǎo | old; aged; (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous; forceful |
| 苍黄 | cāng huáng | greenish yellow; sallow (pale or yellow complexion); variant of 倉皇|仓皇[cang1 huang2] |
| 苍龙 | Cāng lóng | Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky) |
| 苍溪县 | Cāng xī Xiàn | Cangxi, a county in Guangyuan City 廣元市|广元市[Guang3 yuan2 Shi4], Sichuan |
| 苍耳 | cāng ěr | Siberian cocklebur (botany) |
| 苍术 | cāng zhú | black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM) |
| 无头苍蝇 | wú tóu cāng ying | headless fly (a metaphor for sb who is rushing around frantically) |