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  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
ocean / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
radiant with joy
HSK 7-9
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
vast body of water / CL:
HSK 7-9
immensely pleased with oneself (idiom) / proud / complacent
north China navy (esp. the ill-fated Chinese navy in the 1895 war with Japan)
ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan
Sanyō, Japanese electronics company
Oceania
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
combining native and foreign methods (idiom); sophisticated and many-sided
North Atlantic
full of joy (idiom); jubilation
immensely pleased with oneself (idiom) / proud / complacent
Pacific Ocean
Nanyang Siang Pau (Malay's oldest newspaper)
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 make a fool of oneself
HSK 7-9
ocean current
onion (Allium cepa) / bulb onion
Western goods / imported goods (in former times)
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
lazily
brimming with / steeped in
HSK 7-9
maritime
Pacific Rim
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
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
imported oil / kerosene
rickshaw
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
to idle on the job
Southeast Asia / South seas
Western style / foreign flavor / trendy / fashionable
north China army (esp. during the warlords period)
Western-style house
tinfoil / CL: 張|张
Baiyang Lake in Hebei
Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)
Arctic ocean
Indian Ocean
cruiser (warship) / battle cruiser
Western taste / Western style
(esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
oceanography
to revere everything foreign and pander to overseas powers (idiom); blind worship of foreign goods and ideas
a rich young bully of old Shanghai
Western style
mid-ocean ridge
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
(Tw) (sports) foreign player / import
children's game played with illustrated cards / pogs / menko (Japan)
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
Yangpu Economic Development Zone, Hainan
Yangshan Deep-Water Port (near Shanghai)
machine-woven cloth (old)
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
(old) foreign concession
Union Pacific Railroad
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
voluminous / flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom)
ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC)
Historical name for Portugal during the Qing dynasty
sage (herb)
(Tw) cantaloupe; muskmelon
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge
Singkawang city (Kalimantan, Indonesia)
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
cement
parsley
(old) peep show / (fig.) hanky-panky / trickery
to travel across the oceans
Atlantic mid-ocean ridge
lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)
(esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
western style guns (in former times)
(bird species of China) Pacific swallow (Hirundo tahitica)
pearl barley
Jerusalem artichoke
Southern Ocean
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)
oceanic crust (geology)
young foreign girl
soap
the western Pacific Ocean
Butterfield and Swire (Hong Kong bank)
(slang) (derog.) person who uncritically admires the West, esp. Western liberal ideals, and criticizes China by those standards
Western learning
mandolin

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