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

Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[tsʰ]ˤaŋ | tshang | cāng | deep blue or green |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.7367% of movies
2179th most common character in movies
1728th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+84BC |
Shuowen | “蒼,艸色也。从艸,倉聲。” |
Sources
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