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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「白發蒼蒼」 and its explanation.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「白發蒼蒼」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Cangcang: grayish white. Gray hair. Used to describe a person’s old age.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bái fā cāng cāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak6 faat3 chong1 chong1

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.