皓首苍颜 (hào shǒu cāng yán) — white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age · Chinese · Nantoka

hào shǒu cāng yán

Traditional: 皓首蒼顏

皓首苍颜 (hào shǒu cāng yán) is a Chinese word meaning “white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age”.

Meanings

1white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age

Characters in 皓首苍颜

皓hào · (bound form) bright; luminous; white (esp. bright white teeth of youth or white hair of old age)首shǒu · head 苍cāng · dark blue 颜yán · color

Related words

首head 首先first of all; in the first place 颜色color 首席chief (representative, correspondent etc)元首head of state 首相prime minister (of Japan or UK etc)自首to give oneself up 首要the most important 苍蝇housefly 首都capital (city)首领head; boss; chief 苍白pale

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