皓首苍颜
hào shǒu cāng yán · white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age
Character breakdown
Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.
How to learn 皓首苍颜
Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.
When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.
Words with the same characters
Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.
color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff
首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
首都shǒudūcapital (city); CL:個|个[ge4]
首先shǒuxiānfirst (of all); in the first place
首次shǒucìfirst; first time; for the first time
五颜六色wǔyán-liùsèmulticolored; every color under the sun