Chinese Notes

苍 (蒼) cāng

cāng noun dark blue; deep green
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Color
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '蒼'; Guoyu '蒼' n 1; Unihan '蒼')
cāng proper noun Cang
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '蒼' n 2)
cāng adjective graying [hair]
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '蒼'; Guoyu '蒼' adj 1)

Contained in

苍黄(蒼黃) greenish yellow ; sallow
白发苍苍(白髮蒼蒼) old and gray-haired
苍松翠柏(蒼松翠柏) evergreen pine and cypress; steadfast nobility
苍龙(蒼龍) a blue dragon ; Blue Dragon ; a blue horse ; Tai Sui, God of the year ; a blue mountain range
苍蝇老虎(蒼蠅老虎) jumping spider
苍白色(蒼白色) pale; wan; sickly white
苍头(蒼頭) a soldier wearing a green headscarf ; a servant wearing a green headscarf
苍劲(蒼勁) bold; upright and strong; vigorous; forceful (brush strokes); sureness of touch
苍眉蝗莺(蒼眉蝗鶯) Gray's grasshopper warbler (Locustella fasciolata)
苍老(蒼老) old; aged; vigorous; forceful
苍术(蒼術) black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
白衣苍狗(白衣蒼狗) (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog; the impermanence of all things
苍头燕雀(蒼頭燕雀) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
大野入苍穹(大野入蒼穹) the vast plain extends to the sky
钟山风雨起苍黄(鍾山風雨起蒼黃) over the Purple Mountains sweeps a storm headlong
苍生涂炭(蒼生塗炭) the common people in a miserable state
苍颉(蒼頡) Cangjie
苍背山雀(蒼背山雀) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)
苍耳(蒼耳) Siberian cocklebur
穹苍(穹蒼) the sky; the firmament; the vault of heaven
苍惶(蒼惶) in a panic; flurried
苍鹰(蒼鷹) northern goshawk
苍蝇拍(蒼蠅拍) flyswatter
苍蝇不叮无缝蛋(蒼蠅不叮無縫蛋) flies do not attack an intact egg; no smoke without a fire
苍翠(蒼翠) verdant
苍茫(蒼茫) boundless; vast; hazy (distant horizon)
苍苍(蒼蒼) ash gray; vast and hazy; flourishing
无头苍蝇(無頭蒼蠅) headless fly (a metaphor for somebody who is rushing around frantically)
苍蝇座(蒼蠅座) Musca
苍白无力(蒼白無力) pale and feeble; powerless
苍鹭(蒼鷺) grey heron
苍郁(蒼鬱) verdant and luxuriant
苍穹(蒼穹) the blue dome of heaven
暮色苍茫(暮色蒼茫) the hazy dusk of twilight
苍天(蒼天) firmament
苍凉(蒼涼) desolate; bleak
苍颜(蒼顏) very old
苍生(蒼生) vegetation grows
苍白(蒼白) pale; wan
皓首苍颜(皓首蒼顏) white hair and gray sunken cheeks; decrepit old age
苍莽(蒼莽) boundless

Also contained in

苍溪、苍梧郡、旺苍、苍南、苍山、苍梧、苍溪县、苍山县、苍梧县、旺苍县

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《張丞相列傳》 Biography of Chancellor Zhang Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 37
卷四十二光武十王列傳 Volume 42: Biographies of Ten Princes of Guangwu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 37
卷六十四志第十七五行二下 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Five Elements 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 35
卷六十志第十三天文十三 Volume 60 Treatises 13: Astronomy 13 History of Song 宋史 — count: 35
卷四十二張周趙任申屠傳 Volume 42: Zhang, Zhou, Zhao, Ren and Shentu Book of Han 漢書 — count: 34
卷11　志第6　禮儀六 Volume 11 Treatises 6: Rites 6 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 31
卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 18
卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 16
卷十八志第八禮五 Volume 18 Treatises 8: Rituals 5 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 15
卷七十二　志第二十三: 　祭祀一 Volume 72 Treatises 25: Offerings 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 13

Collocations

王苍 (王蒼) 東平王蒼 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二顯宗孝明帝紀 Volume 2: Annals of Emperor Xianzong Xiaoming — count: 12
服苍 (服蒼) 服蒼玉 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷五　時則訓 Chapter 5: Seasonal Standards — count: 5
苍海 (蒼海) 為蒼海郡 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六武帝紀 Volume 6: Annals of Emperor Wu — count: 4
苍卒 (蒼卒) 丞相北平侯張蒼卒 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《漢興以來將相名臣年表》 Yearly Table of Statesmen, Generals and Officials since the Han Dynasty's Founding — count: 4
苍玉 (蒼玉) 大夫佩水蒼玉而純組綬 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《玉藻》 The Jade-Bead Pendants of the Royal Cap — count: 4
苍免 (蒼免) 蒼免相 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《漢興以來將相名臣年表》 Yearly Table of Statesmen, Generals and Officials since the Han Dynasty's Founding — count: 4
苍曰 (蒼曰) 奏記說蒼曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十上班彪列傳 Volume 40a: Biography of Ban Biao 1 — count: 3
后苍 (後蒼) 授後蒼 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十八儒林傳 Volume 88: Confucian Scholars — count: 2
苍木 (蒼木) 蒼木維流 — Canon of Supreme Mystery 太玄經, Full Text — count: 2
苍璧 (蒼璧) 以蒼璧禮天 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 春官宗伯第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites — count: 2