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滄

Simplified: 沧

cāng ㄘㄤ

    • (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green

      bound form

    • cold

      literary

Other words read cāng

In the same tone

  • 艙 cāng cabin
  • 倉 cāng barn
  • 蒼 cāng dark blue
  • 傖 cāng low fellow
  • 凔 cāng cold

All 6 words read cāng

cang with other tones

  • 藏 cáng conceal
  • 鑶 cáng (sound of a bell)

All 8 words read cang in any tone

The stroke order and parts of 滄

    部首 radical
    氵 a form of 水
    笔画 strokes
    13, with 10 after the 部首
    结构 structure
    左右结构
    偏旁 parts
    氵倉
    形旁 meaning
    氵
    声旁 sound
    倉
    Practise writing 滄

    Trace 滄, then write it from memory. Each stage is passed five times.

    Words with 滄

    Starting with 滄

    • 滄桑 cāngsāng great changes
    • 滄海桑田 cānghǎisāngtián lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields
    • 滄縣 cāngxiàn Cang County or Cangxian, a county in Cangzhou City 沧州市 cāngzhōushì, Hebei
    • 滄州市 cāngzhōushì Cangzhou, prefecture-level city in Hebei Province 河北省 héběishěng
    • 滄海一粟 cānghǎiyīsù one grain floating on the ocean

    All 11 words starting with 滄

    Containing 滄

    • 瀾滄江 láncāngjiāng Lancang River, the upper course (in southwestern China) of the Mekong River 湄公河 méigōnghé
    • 飽經滄桑 bǎojīngcāngsāng having lived through many changes
    • 曾經滄海 céngjīngcānghǎi lit. having crossed the vast ocean
    • 歷盡滄桑 lìjìncāngsāng have been through the hardships of life
    • 瀾滄拉祜族自治縣 láncānglāhùzúzìzhìxiàn Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, in Pu'er City 普洱市 pǔěrshì, Yunnan

    All 8 words containing 滄

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