cāng
blue
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 倉 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 滄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
great changes | ||
cold | ||
fig. the transformations of the world | ||
lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) | ||
Cangzhou prefecture-level city in Hebei |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3023rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6EC4 |
Shuowen | “滄,寒也。从水,倉聲。” |
Sources
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