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  *洋* | 洋* | *洋
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin
HSK 6
ocean / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
brimming with / steeped in
HSK 7-9
vast body of water / CL:
HSK 7-9
radiant with joy
HSK 7-9
to make a fool of oneself
HSK 7-9
oceanography
carmine; magenta
vast / impressive / self-satisfied / immensely pleased with oneself
chess
domestic and foreign
foreign language (esp. Western) (old)
the western Pacific Ocean
(slang) (derog.) person who uncritically admires the West, esp. Western liberal ideals, and criticizes China by those standards
Baiyang Lake in Hebei
to cross the ocean
the West (Europe and North America) / countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
doll (of Western appearance)
mandolin
Southeast Asia / South seas
(old) foreign firm
the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong
Westerner employed in Qing China (as professor or military advisor etc)
globe artichoke
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)
Shayang county in Jingmen 荊門|荆门, Hubei
Western-style dress
onion (Allium cepa) / bulb onion
distant seas / the open ocean (far from the coast)
Pacific Ocean
Western style / foreign flavor / trendy / fashionable
seas and oceans
(Tw) potato chip
Guangdong Ocean University
Southern Ocean
lazily
young foreign girl
pickaxe
ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan
to idle on the job
ocean current
full of joy (idiom); jubilation
Western taste / Western style
voluminous / flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom)
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)
to travel across the oceans
(idiom) infamous pirate; (by extension) notorious bandit or robber
maritime climate
the Northern Warlords (1912-1927)
western style guns (in former times)
see 洋基隊|洋基队 / New York Yankees (US baseball team)
(old) peep show / (fig.) hanky-panky / trickery
lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task)
Westerner
foreign devil / term of abuse for Westerners
the Shanghai of old, with its foreign settlements / (fig.) a bustling, cosmopolitan city
(Tw) cantaloupe; muskmelon
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
Yang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
Japan (old) / East Asian countries
Atlantic Ocean
(dialect) potato
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
flat silver (former coinage) / also written 銀元|银元
foreign money / flat silver (former coinage) / also written 銀元|银元
imported oil / kerosene
(old) foreign concession
foreigner / Westerner
immensely pleased with oneself (idiom) / proud / complacent
foreign language (esp. Western)
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning
to go abroad (old)
Western goods / imported goods (in former times)
mid-ocean ridge (geology)
joyfully satisfied / to be immensely proud of oneself / proudly / an air of complacency
terrible pain; torture; (coll.) pain suffered at the hands of foreigners
(esp. during resistance against Japanese aggression 1931–1945) Jap; Nip
(literary) to gaze into the air
watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
agar
to Westernize
Indian Ocean
warm and cozy; comfortably warm
cultivated mushroom; champignon (Agaricus bisporus)
Arctic ocean
cabbage (round cabbage most commonly found in Western countries)
Western style
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
immensely pleased with oneself (idiom) / proud / complacent
Western-style clothes
machine-woven cloth (old)
(coll.) matches (old)
cement
Jerusalem artichoke
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
Sanyō, Japanese electronics company

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