沧海桑田
Traditional form:
滄海桑田
Pinyin (reading):
cānghǎisāngtián
Definitions:
- lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
- fig. the transformations of the world
Characters:
- 沧 - azure, cold, vast (all as of the sea)
- 海 - sea, ocean; maritime
- 桑 - mulberry tree; surname
- 田 - field, farm, arable land; cultivated
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