皓首苍颜 hào shǒu cāng yán

white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. white hair and gray sunken cheeks (idiom); decrepit old age

Characters

Character Meaning
皓 hào
variant of 皓hào; bright; luminous
首 shǒu HSK 4
first (occasion, thing etc); head; chief
苍 cāng HSK 6
dark blue; ash-gray; deep green
颜 yán HSK 2
face; countenance; color