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HSK
sea / ocean
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *床* | 床* | *床
bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) (CL:張|张) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis / classifier for blankets, quilts etc
HSK 1
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  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
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  *海* | 海* | *海
ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
HSK 2
ocean / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
manta ray, esp. giant oceanic manta ray (Mobula birostris)
seabed; seafloor; bottom of the ocean
HSK 6
Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島|迪戈·加西亚岛 as largest island
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan
mailboat / ocean liner
El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和 to regions bordering the Indian Ocean)
Atlantic Ocean
to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent
HSK 7-9
ocean current
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across
(fig.) (slang) to stick one's nose in other people's affairs (i.e. the scope of other people's business that one concerns oneself with is as wide as an ocean vista)
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds
China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) (abbr. for 中國遠洋運輸|中国远洋运输)
the surface of the sea; ocean surface
HSK 7-9
rivers, lakes and oceans / bodies of water
the vast ocean
ocean wave / billows
distant seas / the open ocean (far from the coast)
the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
Arctic ocean
Indian Ocean
(idiom) many little things add up to sth great; many little drops make an ocean
oceanic crust (geology)
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
mid-ocean ridge
lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) / fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life
seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean
lit. one grain floating on the ocean (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean
State Oceanic Administration (PRC)
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge
ocean sunfish (Mola mola)
Fiji, a country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)
Southern Ocean
to fall into the ocean / to crash into the ocean
vast and mighty (of river or ocean) / broad and powerful
the western Pacific Ocean
lit. mountains of corpses and oceans of blood (idiom) / fig. a scene of wholesale slaughter
lit. ocean drifting people / job-hopping foreigner
to travel across the oceans
oceanic crust (geology)
oceanic sediment (geology)
to cross the ocean
ocean liner / cruise liner
Southern Ocean
ocean surface
vast (of ocean) / boundless
to cross (the wide ocean)
ocean floor / bottom of the ocean
Suhua Highway, coastal road in northern Taiwan, built on the side of cliffs above the Pacific Ocean
(lit.) abyss and ocean / (fig.) vast and profound
Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean)
seas and oceans
Southern Ocean
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
ocean of lust (Buddhist term) / worldly desires
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  *瀛* | 瀛* | *瀛
ocean
the West (Europe and North America) / countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean (Tw)
East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)
East Pacific Rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California to Antarctica)
vast / without boundaries / power (of a river or ocean)
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
mafic rock (containing magnesium and iron, so comparatively heavy, making oceanic plates)
Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
Mogadishu, Indian ocean seaport and capital of Somalia
Guangdong Ocean University
spray / ocean spray / spindrift / fig. happenings from one's life / CL:
Wake Island (North Pacific Ocean)
oceanic crust (geology)
ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)
Tethys (pre-Cambrian ocean)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *瀚* | 瀚* | *瀚
ocean / vastness
ocean sunfish (Mola mola)
Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean
mid-ocean ridge
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沧* | 沧* | *沧
(bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green / (literary) cold
Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chago archipelago 查戈斯群島|查戈斯群岛


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