TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
蒼
蒼 ＝ 艸 ＋ 倉
ㄘㄤ · cāng
adj — deep blue-green; gray, pale; vast
字源 FORM — what the parts do
艸義grass on top (writes as 艹)
Grass (艸) and 倉 cāng, a granary, for the sound. The word is the color of grass — the deep blue-green of growing things. From that color, the blue of the sky (蒼天) and the gray of age (蒼白、蒼老); from grass spread to the horizon, the vast and dim — 蒼茫.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一整片草（艸）鋪到天邊，深青裡透灰——蒼。
A whole field of grass (艸) running to the skyline, deep green going gray — 蒼.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)草色、深青— the deep blue-green of grass常用
→蒼天、蒼穹— the blue of the sky
⇒蒼白、蒼老— gray, pale; aged
⇒蒼茫、蒼莽— vast and dim
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
倉cāngthe bare phonetic — add grass and the granary becomes a color滄cāngthe series — water beside it for the deep blue sea