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Nanyang Siang Pau (Malay's oldest newspaper)
cruiser (warship) / battle cruiser
to speak with a foreign accent or using words from a foreign language (usually derogatory) (idiom)
(bird species of China) Pacific loon (Gavia pacifica)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
children's game played with illustrated cards / pogs / menko (Japan)
Indomalayan realm
full of joy (idiom); jubilation
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
ocean / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
immensely pleased with oneself (idiom) / proud / complacent
(esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
CNOOC; China National Offshore Oil Corporation
ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan
Western style / foreign flavor / trendy / fashionable
Sanyō, Japanese electronics company
Oceania
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
North Atlantic
immensely pleased with oneself (idiom) / proud / complacent
Pacific 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)
radiant with joy
HSK 7-9
New York Yankees (US baseball team)
Atlantic Ocean
ocean current
onion (Allium cepa) / bulb onion
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
maritime
the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
joyfully satisfied / to be immensely proud of oneself / proudly / an air of complacency
domestic and foreign
foreigner / Westerner
to idolize foreign things
vast / impressive / self-satisfied / immensely pleased with oneself
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
(esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
vast body of water / CL:
HSK 7-9
imported oil / kerosene
brimming with enthusiasm (idiom); full of warmth
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
to feign ignorance
foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
to idle on the job
combining native and foreign methods
Southeast Asia / South seas
Western-style house
Yang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
maritime climate
Baiyang Lake in Hebei
distant seas / the open ocean (far from the coast)
Arctic ocean
Indian Ocean
Western taste / Western style
Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific seismic belt)
oceanic crust (geology)
Western-style dress
to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
Western style
mid-ocean ridge
Ring of Fire (circum-Pacific seismic belt)
the Warlord government of Northern China that developed from the Qing Beiyang army 北洋軍閥|北洋军阀 after the Xinhai revolution of 1911
Westerner employed in Qing China (as professor or military advisor etc)
Western learning
children's game played with illustrated cards / pogs / menko (Japan)
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
foreign money / flat silver (former coinage) / also written 銀元|银元
(old) peep show / (fig.) hanky-panky / trickery
Yangshan Deep-Water Port (near Shanghai)
machine-woven cloth (old)
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
east Pacific
a rich young bully of old Shanghai
thalassemia
State Oceanic Administration (PRC)
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
rickshaw
(Tw) cantaloupe; muskmelon
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge
Singkawang city (Kalimantan, Indonesia)
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
voluminous / flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom)
cement
parsley
(publishing industry) total cover price of all books in an edition
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)
(bird species of China) Pacific swallow (Hirundo tahitica)
pearl barley
Jerusalem artichoke
to make a fool of oneself
HSK 7-9
Southern Ocean
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)
young foreign girl
school after the Western model, teaching subjects such as foreign languages, math, physics, chemistry etc (old)

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