沧 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

cāng

blue

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 仓 represents the sound. Simplified form of 滄.

Components

氵 Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

仓 Sound component

cāng

granary

Evolution

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

cāng

blue, dark green; cold; blue-green or azure (of water); vast (of water)

Most common words with 沧

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	沧桑	great changes
	沧	cold
	沧海桑田	fig. the transformations of the world
	曾经沧海	lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom)
	沧州	Cangzhou prefecture-level city in Hebei

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3023rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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