Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 倉 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (滄)
Simplified (沧)
Notes
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Historical Evolution
沧
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
沧
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
沧
Regular
Modern
Chinese
沧 / 滄 [cāng]
blue-green or azure (of water); vast (of water); cold
Example Sentences
Japanese Names
滄 そうがい
Sougai given name
CHINESE WORDS (29)
沧桑 [cāngsāng] #31,228
great changes
沧海桑田 [cānghǎisāngtián] #51,663
lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
曾经沧海 [céngjīngcānghǎi] #53,438
lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom)
沧州 [Cāngzhōu] #21,755
Cangzhou prefecture-level city in Hebei
澜沧江 [LáncāngJiāng] #32,541
Lancang River of Qinghai and Yunnan, the upper reaches of Mekong River 湄公河[MéigōngHé] of Southeast Asia
沧浪 [Cānglàng] #38,185
Canglang district of Suzhou city 蘇州市|苏州市[Sūzhōushì], Jiangsu
沧州市 [CāngzhōuShì] #39,002
Cangzhou prefecture-level city in Hebei
李沧 [Lǐcāng] #41,050
Licang district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong
临沧 [Líncāng] #45,166
Lincang prefecture-level city in Yunnan
李沧区 [Lǐcāngqū] #46,506
Licang district of Qingdao city 青島市|青岛市, Shandong
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JAPANESE WORDS (8)
滄海 [そうかい] #69,405
the blue sea
蒼浪 [そうろう] #159,253
blue waves
滄溟 [そうめい] #287,863
great blue sea
桑田変じて滄海となる [そうでんへんじてそうかいとなる]
the world is a scene of constant changes
桑田滄海 [そうでんそうかい]
the world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea)
滄海の一粟 [そうかいのいちぞく]
drop in the bucket
滄海遺珠 [そうかいのいしゅ]
talented person unbeknownst to the world
滄海桑田 [そうかいそうでん]
the world is a scene of constant changes
KOREAN WORDS (1)