ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous

sea; ocean

Shanghai municipality (short name 滬|沪[Hu4])

the mind; the brain

to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets

deep sea

Mediterranean Sea

(coll.) bald crown; bald spot on the crown of the head

to sail the seas; maritime navigation; voyage

Caribbean Sea

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)

coastal

East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography)

see 東海縣|东海县[Dong1 hai3 Xian4]

North Sea (in Europe); historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖[Bei4 jia1 er3 Hu2], Russia

see 北海公園|北海公园[Bei3 hai3 Gong1 yuan2]; see 北海市[Bei3 hai3 Shi4]

a sea of flames

the high seas; international waters

South China Sea

see 南海區|南海区[Nan2 hai3 Qu1]

Red Sea

(neologism) highly competitive market (contrasted with 藍海|蓝海[lan2 hai3])

lit. sea of bitterness; abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term); depths of misery

bangs; fringe (hair)

Black Sea

(fig.) the whole world

coastal waters; offshore

Baltic Sea

to cross a sea

Binhai (place name); Binhai New District, subprovincial district of Tianjin; Binhai county in Yancheng 鹽城|盐城[Yan2 cheng2], Jiangsu; fictitious city Binhai in political satire; Primorsky, a territory in the far east of Russia

sea of evil; endless crime

see 臨海市|临海市[Lin2 hai3 Shi4]

to overlook the sea; on the waterfront

see 烏海市|乌海市[Wu1 hai3 Shi4]

sea of clouds

a multitude; a sea of people

see 興海縣|兴海县[Xing1 hai3 Xian4]

inland sea; internal sea (wholly within the territory of one country, e.g. the Bohai Sea)

see 凌海市[Ling2 hai3 Shi4]

Han dynasty province around the Bohai sea; renamed 渤海 after the Han

see 勐海縣|勐海县[Meng3 hai3 Xian4]

abbr. for 台灣海峽|台湾海峡, Taiwan Strait

Houhai, a lake and the area surrounding it in central Beijing

Aral Sea

to fall into the ocean; to crash into the ocean

land reclamation

offshore; open sea

see 威海市[Wei1 hai3 Shi4]

sea of learning; erudite; knowledgeable person; scholarship