Chinese Character Wiki

蒼

cāng

blue

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 倉 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

倉 sound component

倉  Sound component

cāng

  

granary

Evolution

蒼 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
蒼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蒼 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蒼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

苍 (蒼) 

cāng

blue; green; dark blue; deep green; ash-gray

苍 (蒼) 

Cāng

surname Cang

Most common words with 蒼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

苍蝇

housefly

苍白

pale

苍

dark blue

上苍

heaven

苍天

firmament

Historical 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

苍

Unicode

U+84BC

Shuowen

“蒼，艸色也。从艸，倉聲。”


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