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苍白

cāng bái

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 蒼白

苍白 (cāng bái) means "pale; wan". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 苍白 means

1. pale
2. wan

The characters in 苍白

• 苍cāngdark blue; deep green; ash-gray
• 白báiwhite; snowy; pure

Example sentences

• 他有点苍白。
  He looks kind of pale.
• 你脸色苍白。
  You are pale.
• 汤姆有点苍白
  Tom is a bit pale.
• 你看上去很苍白。
  You look very pale.
• 你看起来很苍白。
  You look pale.
• 汤姆看起来很苍白。
  Tom looks pale.

Words starting with 苍白

• 苍白无力cāng bái wú lìpale and feeble; powerless
• 苍白色cāng bái sèpale; wan; sickly white

Where 苍白 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cǎi–cāo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cāng bái correctly.
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