| 海报 (海報) |
hǎibào |
poster / playbill / notice |
| 海外 |
hǎiwài |
overseas / abroad |
| 海洋 |
hǎiyáng |
ocean / CL: 個｜个 |
| 海口 |
hǎikǒu |
estuary / coastal inlet / river mouth / seaport / see also 誇海口｜夸海口 |
| 海关 (海關) |
hǎiguān |
customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個｜个 |
| 南海 |
Nán Hǎi |
South China Sea |
| 海绵 (海綿) |
hǎimián |
sponge (zoology) / sponge (piece of absorbent material, either natural or made from plastic etc) / foam rubber |
| 航海 |
hánghǎi |
sailing / navigation / voyage by sea |
| 海贼 (海賊) |
hǎizéi |
pirate |
| 海鲜 (海鮮) |
hǎixiān |
seafood |
| 咸鱼 (鹹魚) |
xiányú |
salted fish |
| 咸 |
xián |
all / everyone / each / widespread / harmonious |
| 咸 (鹹) |
xián |
salted / salty / stingy / miserly |
| 咸水 (鹹水) |
xiánshuǐ |
salt water / brine |
| 咸鸭蛋 (鹹鴨蛋) |
xiányādàn |
salted duck egg |
| 咸菜 (鹹菜) |
xiáncài |
salted vegetables / pickles |
| 黄河 (黃河) |
Huáng Hé |
Yellow River or Huang He |
| 银河 (銀河) |
Yínhé |
Milky Way / our galaxy |
| 天河 |
Tiānhé |
Milky Way / Tianhe district of Guangzhou city 廣州市｜广州市, Guangdong |
| 河流 |
héliú |
river / CL: 條｜条 |
| 淡 |
dàn |
insipid / diluted / weak / mild / light in color / tasteless / fresh / indifferent / nitrogen |
| 淡定 |
dàndìng |
calm and collected / unperturbed |
| 平淡 |
píngdàn |
flat / dull / ordinary / nothing special |
| 淡化 |
dànhuà |
to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination |
| 淡淡 |
dàndàn |
faint / dim / dull / insipid / unenthusiastic / indifferent |
| 淡水 |
dànshuǐ |
potable water (water with low salt content) / fresh water |
| 淡雅 |
dànyǎ |
simple and elegant |
| 淡出 |
dànchū |
to fade out (cinema) / to withdraw from (politics, acting etc) / to fade from (memory) |
| 清淡 |
qīngdàn |
light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored) / insipid / slack (sales) |
| 暗淡 |
àndàn |
dark / dim (light) / dull (color) / drab / (fig.) gloomy / bleak |
| 惨淡 (慘淡) |
cǎndàn |
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort |
| 淡漠 |
dànmò |
apathetic / indifferent / unsympathetic |
| 鳞 (鱗) |
lín |
scales (of fish) |
| 鳞片 (鱗片) |
línpiàn |
scale / fish scales |
| 鱼鳞 (魚鱗) |
yúlín |
fish scales |
| 鳞甲 (鱗甲) |
línjiǎ |
scale / plate of armor |
| 鳞状细胞癌 (鱗狀細胞癌) |
línzhuàngxìbāo'ái |
squamous cell carcinoma |
| 遍体鳞伤 (遍體鱗傷) |
biàntǐlínshāng |
covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises |
| 鳞状 (鱗狀) |
línzhuàng |
scaly / squamous |
| 潜力 (潛力) |
qiánlì |
potential / capacity |
| 潜 (潛) |
qián |
hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive |
| 潜水 (潛水) |
qiánshuǐ |
to dive / to go under water / lurker (Internet slang for sb who reads forum posts but never replies) |
| 潜能 (潛能) |
qiánnéng |
potential / hidden capability |
| 潜在 (潛在) |
qiánzài |
hidden / potential / latent |
| 潜艇 (潛艇) |
qiántǐng |
submarine |
| 羽毛 |
yǔmáo |
feather / plumage / plume |
| 关羽 (關羽) |
Guān Yǔ |
Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama |
| 羽绒 (羽絨) |
yǔróng |
down (soft feathers) |
| 羽翼 |
yǔyì |
wing / (fig.) assistant |
| 羽化 |
yǔhuà |
levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion |
| 翔 |
xiáng |
to soar / to glide / variant of 詳｜详 |
| 飞翔 (飛翔) |
fēixiáng |
to circle in the air / to soar |
| 翱翔 |
áoxiáng |
to soar / to wheel about in the sky |
| 滑翔 |
huáxiáng |
to glide |
