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 ㄘㄤㄍㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): baak⁶ wan⁴ cong¹ gau²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: báiyún-cānggǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˊ ㄩㄣˊ ㄘㄤㄍㄡˇ
  - 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

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

Synonyms

白衣蒼狗／白衣苍狗 (báiyī-cānggǒu)

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