沧滄

meaning for 沧 cāng:

• - blue-green or azure (of water)
• - vast (of water)
• - coldgreat changes
• - ups and downs
• - vicissitudes
• - abbr. of 沧海桑田 lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
• - fig. the transformations of the worldhaving lived through many changeslit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom)
• - fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of lifea drop in the ocean (idiom)