| 白衣苍狗 |
bái yī cāng gǒu |
lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to 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 |
| 衣 |
yī |
clothes / CL:件 / Kangxi radical 145 |
| 衣 |
yì |
to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes) |
| 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 |