沧 — Chinese character
沧
cāng
azure, cold, vast (all as of the sea)
- Pinyin
- cāng
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 氵 仓
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 仓
- Traditional
- 滄
Common words with 沧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沧桑 (滄桑) | cāng sāng | great changes; ups and downs |
| 沧海桑田 (滄海桑田) | cāng hǎi sāng tián | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); fig. the transformations of the world |
| 沧海一粟 (滄海一粟) | cāng hǎi yī sù | (lit.) one grain floating on the ocean (idiom); (fig.) a drop in the ocean |
| 曾经沧海 (曾經滄海) | céng jīng cāng hǎi | lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom); fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life |
| 历尽沧桑 (歷盡滄桑) | lì jìn cāng sāng | to have been through the hardships of life; to have been through the mill |
| 饱经沧桑 (飽經滄桑) | bǎo jīng cāng sāng | having lived through many changes |
| 沧桑感 (滄桑感) | cāng sāng gǎn | a sense of having been through good times and bad; a weathered and worn look |
| 沧龙 (滄龍) | cāng lóng | (zoology) mosasaur |
| 沧海遗珠 (滄海遺珠) | cāng hǎi yí zhū | undiscovered talent (idiom) |
| 沧龙科 (滄龍科) | cāng lóng kē | (zoology) family Mosasauridae |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.