cāng
adjective #57,153

Meanings

  1. 1 dark blue-green (of the sea)
  2. 2 (literary) cold

Examples

Duōnián hòu tā chángjìn le rénshēng de cāngsāng.
After many years he had been through all life's ups and downs.
Zhàn zài mángmáng cānghǎi biān, tā gǎndào zìjǐ de miǎoxiǎo.
Standing by the vast deep-blue sea, he felt his own smallness.

Tips

usage
describes the deep blue-green of a vast sea: 沧海 (the great blue ocean). The famous 沧桑 (lit. 'blue sea to mulberry fields') means the great changes life brings over time.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
is the water radical in left-side form, fitting as the deep blue-green color of a great body of water.
phonetic
cāng
storehouse; granary
(storehouse) supplies the sound cāng exactly and carries no meaning here, serving as the phonetic part.

Stroke Order

cāng