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)

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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
穹苍(穹蒼) the sky; the firmament; the vault of heaven
苍茫(蒼茫) boundless; vast; hazy (distant horizon)
苍耳(蒼耳) Siberian cocklebur
苍颜(蒼顏) very old
苍头(蒼頭) a soldier wearing a green headscarf ; a servant wearing a green headscarf
苍翠(蒼翠) verdant
苍白色(蒼白色) pale; wan; sickly white
苍莽(蒼莽) boundless
皓首苍颜(皓首蒼顏) white hair and gray sunken cheeks; decrepit old age
白发苍苍(白髮蒼蒼) old and gray-haired
苍眉蝗莺(蒼眉蝗鶯) Gray's grasshopper warbler (Locustella fasciolata)
苍凉(蒼涼) desolate; bleak
苍天(蒼天) firmament
大野入苍穹(大野入蒼穹) the vast plain extends to the sky
苍蝇座(蒼蠅座) Musca
苍术(蒼術) black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
无头苍蝇(無頭蒼蠅) headless fly (a metaphor for somebody who is rushing around frantically)
苍龙(蒼龍) a blue dragon ; Blue Dragon ; a blue horse ; Tai Sui, God of the year ; a blue mountain range
白衣苍狗(白衣蒼狗) (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog; the impermanence of all things
苍颉(蒼頡) Cangjie
苍老(蒼老) old; aged; vigorous; forceful
苍劲(蒼勁) bold; upright and strong; vigorous; forceful (brush strokes); sureness of touch
苍蝇(蒼蠅) a fly
苍鹭(蒼鷺) grey heron
苍生(蒼生) vegetation grows
苍松翠柏(蒼松翠柏) evergreen pine and cypress; steadfast nobility
苍惶(蒼惶) in a panic; flurried
钟山风雨起苍黄(鍾山風雨起蒼黃) over the Purple Mountains sweeps a storm headlong
苍白(蒼白) pale; wan
苍鹰(蒼鷹) northern goshawk
上苍(上蒼) heaven
苍黄(蒼黃) greenish yellow ; sallow
苍郁(蒼鬱) verdant and luxuriant
苍穹(蒼穹) the blue dome of heaven
苍生涂炭(蒼生塗炭) the common people in a miserable state
苍头燕雀(蒼頭燕雀) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
苍苍(蒼蒼) ash gray; vast and hazy; flourishing
暮色苍茫(暮色蒼茫) the hazy dusk of twilight
苍蝇拍(蒼蠅拍) flyswatter

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苍南县、苍山、旺苍、苍南、旺苍县、苍溪、苍溪县、苍梧郡、苍梧、苍梧县、苍山县

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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
《張丞相列傳》 Biography of Chancellor Zhang Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 37
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112下靈徵志八下 Volume 112b Treatise 8: The Spiritual World 2 Book of Wei 魏書 — 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
苍帝 (蒼帝) 蒼帝行德 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《天官書》 Astronomy — count: 2
苍来 (蒼來) 韓太子蒼來質 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦本紀》 Annals of Qin — count: 2
苍任人 (蒼任人) 蒼任人為中候 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《張丞相列傳》 Biography of Chancellor Zhang — count: 2