蒼白

苍

蒼

ca̅ng

白

bái

pale / wan

Characters and words in 蒼白

苍

蒼

ca̅ng = c + ang1

surname Cang

苍 = 仓 + 艹 : The King of Chu (c) wants to embellish his barn (仓) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He wants to hide its ash-gray (苍) color and covers it in dark-green (苍) sheets of artificial lawn (艹).

苍

蒼

ca̅ng = c + ang1

dark blue / deep green / ash-gray

白

bái = b + ai2

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 = 丶 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).