| | public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal) | HSK 6 |
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| | mythological sea turtle | |
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| | sea / ocean | HSK 2 |
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| | Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea) | |
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| | Jin Tianhe (1874–1947), late-Qing poet and novelist, co-author of A Flower in a Sinful Sea 孽海花 | |
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| | lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames / fig. extreme danger (idiom) | |
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| | echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc | |
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| | coco de mer or "sea coconut" (Lodoicea maldivica) | |
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| | Arabian Sea | |
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| | Caribbean Sea | |
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| | 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 |
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| | (literary) East China Sea / (literary) Japan | |
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| | the high seas; international waters | |
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| | edge of the water / waterside / shore (of sea, lake or river) | |
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| | Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece | |
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| | to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets | |
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| | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess | |
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| | edge of the water / shore or sea, lake or river / seashore | |
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| | to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) / to achieve one's aim by underhanded means | |
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| | to sail the seas / maritime navigation / voyage | HSK 7-9 |
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| | mermaid / dugong / sea cow / manatee / giant salamander | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | narcissus / daffodil / legendary aquatic immortal / refers to those buried at sea / person who wanders abroad and does not return | |
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| | perils of the sea | |
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| | sea snail / whelk / conch | |
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| | Jinghai, a district of Tianjin 天津 / Sea of Tranquility (lunar feature) | |
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| | offshore / open sea | |
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| | sea level | |
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| | (zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shipping / sea transport | |
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| | Sea of Azov in southern Russia | |
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| | there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom) | |
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| | to salvage / to dredge / to fish out (person or object from the sea) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | shipping by sea | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Ascidiacea / sea squirt | |
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| | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance | |
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| | the Dead Sea | |
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| | Caspian Sea | |
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| | all rivers run into the sea / use different means to obtain the same result (idiom) | |
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| | Red Sea | |
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| | Sea of Galilee | |
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| | maritime affairs / accident at sea | |
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| | lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter seas of flames (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations (often, for a noble cause) | |
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| | one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals | |
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| | shallow sea / sea less than 200 meters deep | |
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| | to travel a great distance by sea or air / voyage / long-haul flight | |
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| | starfish / sea star | |
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| | lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery | |
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| | The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved! | |
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| | Black Sea | |
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| | test flight (of aircraft) / sea trial (of ship) | |
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| | lit. to fish a needle from the sea / to find a needle in a haystack (idiom) | |
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| | East China sea | |
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| | sea wave | HSK 6 |
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| | to be jolted around (car on a bumpy road, boat on a rough sea, aircraft experiencing turbulence) / (fig.) to undergo a rough experience | |
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| | Yi Sunshin (1545-1598), Korean admiral and folk hero, famous for sea victories over the Japanese invaders | |
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| | (literary) the sun over the sea | |
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| | lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning | |
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| | (of the sea etc) surging; tempestuous / (fig.) highly emotional; fervent | |
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| | a sea of flames | |
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| | Takeshima (Korean Dokdo 獨島|独岛), disputed islands in Sea of Japan | |
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| | sea cucumber | |
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| | sea and land hotpot (Jiangsu specialty) | |
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| | Southeast Asia / South seas | |
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| | swelling or stormy seas | |
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| | Mediterranean Sea | |
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| | deep sea | |
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| | Paracel Islands, in the South China Sea | |
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| | to drain (wastewater) into the sea | |
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| | Baltic Sea | |
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| | wide sea and sky (idiom); boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun | |
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| | distant seas / the open ocean (far from the coast) | |
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| | South China Sea | |
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| | ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, 片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous | HSK 2 |
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| | East Sea Fleet | |
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| | the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea) | |
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| | Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India | |
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| | lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response | |
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| | (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea) | |
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| | a multitude / a sea of people | |
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| | elevation (above sea level) | |
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| | sea-buckthorn | |
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| | sea urchin | |
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| | North Sea (in Europe) / historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖, Russia | |
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| | sea area / territorial waters / maritime space | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Jeddah (Saudi city, on Red Sea) | |
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| | Ama-no-hashidate in the north of Kyōto prefecture 京都府 on the Sea of Japan | |
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| | Aegean Sea | |
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| | sea rescue service / lifeboat service | |
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| | sea warfare; naval battle | |
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| | height above sea level / elevation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) / fig. the transformations of the world | |
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| | vast area / all the way to the sea | |
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| | connected by air, sea traffic or service | |
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| | to bury a corpse / to be buried / (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc) | |
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| | Aral Sea | |
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| | marine / produced in sea | |
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| | sea anemone | |
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| | lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature | |
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| | Macclesfield Bank, series of reefs in the South China Sea southeast of Hainan Island | |
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