lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom); fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
trad. 白雲蒼狗
Also written 白雲蒼狗【bái yún cāng gǒu】
Characters in this word
4白
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surname Bai, Bai ethnic group
- Pinyin
- Bái
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1993 of 2500
云
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(classical) to say
- Pinyin
- yún
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 7285 of 2500
苍
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surname Cang
- Pinyin
- Cāng
- Traditional
- 蒼
- Strokes
- 7
狗
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dog, CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- Pinyin
- gǒu
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 634 of 2500