沧 cāng azure
azure; cold; vast (all as of the sea)
How to remember 沧: 氵 water + 仓 granary = azure. The water below the old granary on the cliff shines so bright that the farmer's daughter paints the whole sea azure.
Component breakdown
沧 = 氵 water + 仓 granary
- 氵 water
- 仓 granary
The water below the old granary on the cliff shines so bright that the farmer's daughter paints the whole sea azure.
How it is used
- Dark-blue and vast, of the sea - 沧海 (cānghǎi) the deep blue sea.
- 沧桑 (cāngsāng) evokes the vicissitudes of time (seas becoming mulberry fields); 沧海一粟 (cānghǎi-yīsù), a grain in the ocean, means an insignificant speck. Literary.