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sāng

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Definitions

  1. 1. (bound form) mulberry tree

Words Containing 桑

桑坦德
sāng tǎn dé

Santander, capital of Spanish autonomous region Cantabria 坎塔布里亞|坎塔布里亚[kǎn tǎ bù lǐ yà]

哈桑
hā sāng

Hassan (person name)

桑拿
sāng ná

sauna (loanword)

渤澥桑田
bó xiè sāng tián

lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記|史记[shǐ jì], Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes

沧桑
cāng sāng

great changes

桑日
sāng rì

Sangri county, Tibetan: Zangs ri rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[shān nán dì qū], Tibet

欧巴桑
ōu ba sāng

woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)

历尽沧桑
lì jìn cāng sāng

to have been through the hardships of life

扶桑
fú sāng

Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan

太阳照在桑干河上
tài yáng zhào zài sāng gān hé shàng

The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River, proletarian novel by Ding Ling, winner of 1951 Stalin prize

洛桑
luò sāng

Lausanne (city in Switzerland)

桑植县
sāng zhí xiàn

Shangzhi county in Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界[zhāng jiā jiè], Hunan

欧吉桑
ōu jí sāng

man of mature years (Japanese loanword)

桑巴
sāng bā

samba (dance) (loanword)

桑娇维塞
sāng jiāo wéi sāi

Sangiovese (grape type)

卡桑德拉
kǎ sāng dé lā

Cassandra (given name)

饱经沧桑
bǎo jīng cāng sāng

having lived through many changes

桑塔纳
sāng tǎ nà

Santana (name)

指桑骂槐
zhǐ sāng mà huái

lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree

吞米桑布札
tūn mǐ sāng bù zhá

Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script

纳撒尼尔·霍桑
nà sā ní ěr · huò sāng

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer

收之桑榆
shōu zhī sāng yú

see 失之東隅,收之桑榆|失之东隅,收之桑榆[shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú]

莫桑比克
mò sāng bǐ kè

Mozambique

拉夫桑贾尼
lā fū sāng jiǎ ní

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

亚利桑那
yà lì sāng nà

Arizona

桑德斯
sāng dé sī

Sanders (name)

桑葚
sāng shèn

mulberry fruit (Fructus mori)

桑那
sāng nà

sauna (loanword)

尼桑
ní sāng

Nissan, Japanese car make

农桑
nóng sāng

mulberry farming

亚利桑那州
yà lì sāng nà zhōu

Arizona

基桑加尼
jī sāng jiā ní

Kisangani (city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

桑蚕
sāng cán

silkworm

桑海
sāng hǎi

Songhay people of Mali and the Sahara

桑科
sāng kē

Moraceae (type of flowering plant)

桑帕约
sāng pà yuē

Sampaio (name)

桑日县
sāng rì xiàn

Sangri county, Tibetan: Zangs ri rdzong, in Lhokha prefecture 山南地區|山南地区[shān nán dì qū], Tibet

桑梓
sāng zǐ

(literary) native place

桑德拉
sāng dé lā

Sandra (name)

桑耶
sāng yē

Samye town and monastery in central Tibet

桑内斯
sāng nèi sī

Sandnes (city in Rogaland, Norway)

桑托里尼岛
sāng tuō lǐ ní dǎo

Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)

桑地诺民族解放阵线
sāng dì nuò mín zú jiě fàng zhèn xiàn

Sandinista National Liberation Front

土桑
tǔ sāng

Tucson (city in Arizona)

桑植
sāng zhí

Shangzhi county in Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界[zhāng jiā jiè], Hunan

坦桑尼亚
tǎn sāng ní yà

Tanzania

失之东隅,收之桑榆
shī zhī dōng yú , shōu zhī sāng yú

to lose at sunrise but gain at sunset (idiom)

桑间濮上
sāng jiān pú shàng

Sangjian by the Pu River, a place in the ancient state of Wei known for wanton behavior

萨桑王朝
sà sāng wáng cháo

Sassanid Empire of Persia (c. 2nd-7th century AD)

莫泊桑
mò bó sāng

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer

沧桑感
cāng sāng gǎn

a sense of having been through good times and bad

普桑
pǔ sāng

a model of Volkswagen Santana based on the Passat B2

南乔治亚岛和南桑威奇
nán qiáo zhì yà dǎo hé nán sāng wēi qí

South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands

亚利桑纳州
yà lì sāng nà zhōu

state of Arizona

桑给巴尔
sāng jǐ bā ěr

Zanzibar

桑树
sāng shù

mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms

沧海桑田
cāng hǎi sāng tián

lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)

妈妈桑
mā ma sāng

mama-san, middle-aged woman who runs a brothel, bar etc (loanword from Japanese)