白雲蒼狗

Chinese

		white cloud; Baiyun
trad. (白雲蒼狗)		白雲	蒼狗
simp. (白云苍狗)		白云	苍狗
Literally: “white clouds are so changeable in shape that they look now like white garments and now like grey hounds”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): báiyún-cānggǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˊ ㄩㄣˊ ㄘㄤ ㄍㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ wan⁴ cong¹ gau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: báiyún-cānggǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄩㄣˊ ㄘㄤ ㄍㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: báiyúncanggǒu
    • Wade–Giles: pai²-yün²-tsʻang¹-kou³
    • Yale: bái-yún-tsāng-gǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bairyuntsanggoou
    • Palladius: байюньцангоу (bajjunʹcangou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯³⁵ yn³⁵ t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵ koʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak⁶ wan⁴ cong¹ gau²
    • Yale: baahk wàhn chōng gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁹ wan⁴ tsong¹ gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag⁶ wen⁴ cong¹ geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚² wɐn²¹ t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵ kɐu̯³⁵/

Idiom

白雲蒼狗

1. freakishness; changeable and strange; changes in human affairs often take freakish forms

Synonyms

• 白衣蒼狗／白衣苍狗 (báiyī-cānggǒu)