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HSK
sea / ocean
HSK 2
customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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  *海* | 海* | *海
ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
HSK 2
coastal
HSK 6
ocean / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
coast / seaside / seashore / beach
HSK 2
bay / gulf
HSK 6
seawater
HSK 4
seafood
HSK 4
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds
overseas; abroad
HSK 6
all rivers run into the sea / use different means to obtain the same result (idiom)
huge volume
HSK 7-9
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
sea wave
HSK 6
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
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
pirate
HSK 7-9
Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE)
Shanghai Stadium
navy
HSK 6
seaweed / marine alga / kelp
HSK 7-9
Shanghai University
English Channel
poster / playbill / notice
HSK 6
coastal / seacoast
HSK 7-9
Cantonese seafood soup
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
Strait of Gibraltar
to sail the seas / maritime navigation / voyage
HSK 7-9
lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames / fig. extreme danger (idiom)
lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world
seabed; seafloor; bottom of the ocean
HSK 6
Shanghai Grand Theater
coco de mer or "sea coconut" (Lodoicea maldivica)
Arabian Sea
Shanghai Theatrical Institute
another name for 金箍棒, the Monkey King's golden cudgel / (fig.) stabilizing force
to go abroad
Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council
Caribbean Sea
tsunami
HSK 7-9
China National Offshore Oil Corporation
Longhai, a district of Zhangzhou City 漳州市, Fujian
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
turtle / Internet slang for 海歸|海归
Hainan Province, capital Haikou 海口市 (abbr. to 瓊|琼)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and journalist
the high seas; international waters
coastline / seaboard / shoreline
domestic and international; at home and abroad
HSK 7-9
Taiwan Strait
wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun
to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
Beihai Park, in Beijing to the northwest of the Forbidden City
(Persian) Gulf
(fig.) the whole world
Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC), skyscraper
Haiyan County in Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海北藏族自治州, Qinghai
Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州, including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces
shore / seaside
HSK 7-9
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
sea area / territorial waters / maritime space
HSK 7-9
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
Hisense (brand)
coastal border region
Hokkaidō, Japan
height above sea level / elevation
HSK 7-9
marine / produced in sea
Houhai, a lake and the area surrounding it in central Beijing
estuary
to pledge undying love (idiom); oath of eternal love / to swear by all the Gods
sea snail / whelk / conch
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
offshore / open sea
sea level
strait; channel
HSK 7-9
(zoology) seal
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), German physicist
Shanghainese / Shanghai dialect
(zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber
HSK 7-9
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
all men are brothers
coast guard
vast as the open sea (idiom); fig. extensive (library)
foreign edition (of a newspaper)
Haifeng, a county in Shanwei City 汕尾市, Guangdong
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
shipping by sea
HSK 7-9
the whole world / throughout the land / everything under the sun
Ascidiacea / sea squirt
Adriatic Sea
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
Shanghai Zhenhua Port Machinery Company
Shanghai Conservatory of Music

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