| 白云苍狗 |
bái yún cāng gǒu |
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world |
| 白 |
Bái |
surname Bai |
| 白 |
bái |
white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera |
| 白云 |
Bái yún |
see 白云区 |
| 白云 |
bái yún |
white cloud |
| 云 |
yún |
(classical) to say |
| 云 |
Yún |
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 云南省 |
| 云 |
yún |
cloud / CL:朵 |
| 苍 |
Cāng |
surname Cang |
| 苍 |
cāng |
dark blue / deep green / ash-gray |
| 苍狗 |
cāng gǒu |
(fig.) the unpredictable changeability of the world; bad omen |
| 狗 |
gǒu |
dog / CL:只,条 |