| | ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, 片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous | HSK 2 |
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| | sea / ocean | HSK 2 |
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| | dry land (as opposed to the sea) | HSK 4 |
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| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | sea wave | HSK 6 |
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| | to sail the seas / maritime navigation / voyage | HSK 7-9 |
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| | coastal / bordering the sea | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to salvage / to dredge / to fish out (person or object from the sea) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shipping by sea | HSK 7-9 |
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| | the surface of the sea; ocean surface | HSK 7-9 |
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| | sea area / territorial waters / maritime space | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber | HSK 7-9 |
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| | height above sea level / elevation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to go out to sea / to enter the sea (to swim etc) / (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | narcissus / daffodil / legendary aquatic immortal / refers to those buried at sea / person who wanders abroad and does not return | |
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| | North Sea (in Europe) / historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖, Russia | |
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| | Poseidon, Greek god of the sea / Neptune, Roman god of the sea / Aquaman, DC comic book superhero / (slang) womanizer / player | |
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| | to overlook the sea / on the waterfront | |
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| | South China Sea | |
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| | sea horse / hippocampus (abbr. for 海馬體|海马体) | |
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| | to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets | |
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| | East China Sea / East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | |
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| | the Dead Sea | |
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| | deep sea | |
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| | edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore | |
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| | starfish / sea star | |
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| | hypo (loanword) / sodium thiosulfate Na2S2O3 used in fixing photos (formerly hyposulfite) / wave (sea) | |
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| | Yellow Sea | |
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| | (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea) | |
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| | sea salt | |
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| | (Chinese mythology) Penglai, one of three fabled islands in the Bohai sea, where immortals were said to live; (by extension) fairyland | |
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| | Classic of Mountain and Sea, probably compiled c. 500 BC-200 BC, contains wide range of geography, mythology, witchcraft, popular customs etc | |
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| | mythological sea turtle | |
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| | mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander | |
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| | connected by air, sea traffic or service | |
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| | (of the sea etc) surging; tempestuous / (fig.) highly emotional; fervent | |
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| | seascape / sea view | |
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| | deep or shallow / depth (of the sea) / limits of decorum | |
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| | to travel a great distance by sea or air / voyage / long-haul flight | |
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| | sea cucumber | |
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| | sea otter | |
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| | sea breeze / sea wind (i.e. from the sea) | |
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| | Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea / east and south of Liaoning province / east of Liao river 遼河|辽河 | |
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| | Emperor of the Sea / Neptune | |
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| | sea and land | |
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| | Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia | |
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| | Phoenicia, ancient civilization along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea | |
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| | to drizzle / sea | |
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| | Jinghai, a district of Tianjin 天津 / Sea of Tranquility (lunar feature) | |
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| | sea-buckthorn | |
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| | a multitude / a sea of people | |
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| | Black Sea | |
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| | Caspian Sea | |
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| | wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun | |
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| | sea lion | |
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| | sea urchin | |
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| | Aegean Sea | |
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| | to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence) / (fig.) to undergo a rough experience | |
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| | Bohai Sea, or Bo Hai, between Liaoning and Shandong / Parhae, Korean kingdom in Manchuria and Siberia 698-926 | |
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| | perils of the sea | |
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| | marine / produced in sea | |
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| | Yellow Sea (Korean term) | |
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| | soughing / whistling or rushing sound (of the wind in trees, the sea etc) | |
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| | sea anemone | |
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| | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world | |
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| | (literary) East China Sea / (literary) Japan | |
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| | sea freight / shipping | |
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| | Southeast Asia / South seas | |
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| | Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis, on the moon) | |
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| | to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) / to achieve one's aim by underhanded means | |
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| | to bury a corpse / to be buried / (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc) | |
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| | Aegean (sea between Greece and Turkey) | |
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| | air or sea voyage (seen as an individual, countable item) / flight / voyage / CL: 個|个 | |
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| | offshore / open sea | |
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| | Yingzhou, easternmost of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, home of immortals and source of elixir of immortality | |
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| | waves surging forth / roaring sea | |
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| | same as 渤海, Bohai Sea between Liaoning and Shandong / Gulf of Zhili or Chihli | |
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| | Red Sea | |
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| | one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals | |
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| | high sea / international waters | |
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| | Poseidon, God of the sea in Greek mythology | |
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| | Baltic Sea | |
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| | lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery | |
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| | test flight (of aircraft) / sea trial (of ship) | |
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| | palace of the Dragon King at the bottom of the Eastern Sea | |
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| | sea land air (transport, or military operations) | |
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| | lit. the Eight Immortals cross the sea, each showing his own special talent (idiom) / fig. (of each individual in a group) to give full play to one's unique capabilities | |
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| | lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames / fig. extreme danger (idiom) | |
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| | edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river) | |
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| | sea of learning, no horizon (idiom); no limits to what one still has to learn / ars longa, vita brevis | |
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| | a sea of flames | |
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| | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess | |
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| | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance | |
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| | shallow sea / sea less than 200 meters deep | |
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| | sea snail / whelk / conch | |
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| | sea angling | |
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| | John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist | |
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| | may your happiness be as immense as the East Sea (idiom) | |
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| | lit. until the seas dry up and stones go soft (idiom) / fig. forever; until the end of time | |
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| | swelling or stormy seas | |
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