苍蒼 in English

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 蒼, the traditional character: 苍 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 戰國.晉
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 12 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他有点苍白。

  He looks kind of pale.

• 他的脸色变得十分苍白。

  His face turned pale.

• 他跟我说我很苍白，并问我怎么了。

  He told me that I looked pale and asked me what the matter was.

• 你今天看上去很苍白。

  You look pale today.

• 你看上去很苍白。

  You look very pale.

• 你看起来很苍白。

  You look pale.

• 我看到天花板上有一只苍蝇

  I saw a fly on the ceiling.

• 老鹰不会去抓苍蝇。

  The eagle does not catch flies.

All example sentences with 苍