WordTaiwan frequency #15,785
滄桑
ㄘㄤ ㄙㄤ
“vicissitudes of life; profound changes brought by time; weathered by hardship”
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- 桑丘ㄙㄤ ㄑㄧㄡSancho; a character name, notably Sancho Panza from Don Quixote
- 桑德斯ㄙㄤ ㄉㄜˊ ㄙSanders; transliteration of the Western surname, notably Bernie Sanders
- 歐巴桑ㄡ ˙ㄅㄚ ㄙㄤmiddle-aged woman or auntie; borrowed from Japanese; can be informal or mildly disparaging depending on context
- 滄海ㄘㄤ ㄏㄞˇthe vast sea; metaphor for the changing ways of the world