苍

surname Cang

dark blue / deep green / ash-gray

barn / granary / storehouse / cabin / hold (in ship)

grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

heaven

firmament

old and gray-haired

desolate / bleak

bold / upright and strong / vigorous / forceful (brush strokes) / sureness of touch

see 無頭蒼蠅|无头苍蝇[wu2 tou2 cang1 ying5]

headless fly (a metaphor for sb who is rushing around frantically)

lit. (cloud shapes) changing from a white shirt to a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world

lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world

white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age

the sky / the firmament / the vault of heaven

Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州[Wen1 zhou1], Zhejiang

Cangnan county in Wenzhou 溫州|温州[Wen1 zhou1], Zhejiang

variant of 倉皇|仓皇[cang1 huang2]

black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM)

(bird species of China) common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

gathering dusk

Wangcang county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元[Guang3 yuan2], Sichuan

Wangcang county in Guangyuan 廣元|广元[Guang3 yuan2], Sichuan

the hazy dusk of twilight (idiom)