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Definitions
- 1. dark blue
- 2. deep green
- 3. ash-gray
Words Containing 苍
ash gray
Cangxi county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元[guǎng yuán], Sichuan
(bird species of China) northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
pale
Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州[wēn zhōu], Zhejiang
pale
heaven
Cangwu county in Wuzhou 梧州[wú zhōu], Guangxi
verdant
gathering dusk
Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州[wēn zhōu], Zhejiang
headless fly (a metaphor for sb who is rushing around frantically)
Cangxi county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元[guǎng yuán], Sichuan
housefly
black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)
Musca (constellation)
Cangwu county in Wuzhou 梧州[wú zhōu], Guangxi
Wangcang county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元[guǎng yuán], Sichuan
firmament
the sky
lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom)
Siberian cocklebur (botany)
boundless
Wangcang county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元[guǎng yuán], Sichuan
upright and strong
the blue dome of heaven
flyswatter
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom)
Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky)
(fig.) the unpredictable changeability of the world; bad omen
desolate
(bird species of China) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
(coll.) jumping spider (called a \fly tiger\ because it preys on houseflies)
boundless
(bird species of China) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)
(bird species of China) Gray's grasshopper warbler (Locustella fasciolata)
evergreen pine and cypress (idiom); steadfast nobility
see 無頭蒼蠅|无头苍蝇[wú tóu cāng ying]
(area where) vegetation grows
aged
pale and feeble
lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom)
verdant and luxuriant
the hazy dusk of twilight (idiom)
(bird species of China) grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
the common people in a miserable state