苍 — Chinese character
苍
cāng
dark blue; deep green; old, hoary
- Pinyin
- cāng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 艹 仓
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 仓
- Traditional
- 蒼
Common words with 苍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苍蝇 (蒼蠅) | cāng ying | housefly; 只 (zhī) |
| 苍白 (蒼白) | cāng bái | pale; wan |
| 苍老 (蒼老) | cāng lǎo | old; aged |
| 苍穹 (蒼穹) | cāng qióng | the blue dome of heaven |
| 苍天 (蒼天) | cāng tiān | firmament |
| 苍生 (蒼生) | cāng shēng | (area where) vegetation grows; the common people |
| 上苍 (上蒼) | shàng cāng | Heaven; God |
| 苍凉 (蒼涼) | cāng liáng | desolate; bleak |
| 白发苍苍 (白髮蒼蒼) | bái fà cāng cāng | old and gray-haired |
| 苍茫 (蒼茫) | cāng máng | boundless; vast |
| 苍苍 (蒼蒼) | cāng cāng | ash gray; vast and hazy |
| 苍白无力 (蒼白無力) | cāng bái wú lì | pale and feeble; powerless |
English words written with 苍
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.