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there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom); one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
trad. 曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲
Also written 曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲【céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què Wū Shān bù shì yún】
Characters in this word 14 曾
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Zeng
Pinyin Zēng
Strokes 12
Frequency 648 of 2500 经
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Jing
Pinyin Jīng
Traditional 經
Strokes 8
Frequency 6639 of 2500 沧
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green, (literary) cold
Pinyin cāng
Traditional 滄
Strokes 7
Frequency 23595 of 2500 海
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Hai
Pinyin Hǎi
Strokes 10
Frequency 2637 of 2500 难
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
Pinyin nán
Traditional 難
Strokes 10
Frequency 1327 of 2500 为
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 as (in the capacity of), to take sth as, to act as, to serve as, to behave as, to become, to be, to do, by (in the passive voice)
Pinyin wéi
Traditional 為
Strokes 4
Frequency 129 of 2500 水
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Shui, Shui ethnic group
Pinyin Shuǐ
Strokes 4
Frequency 807 of 2500 除
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 to get rid of, to remove, to exclude, to eliminate, to wipe out, to divide, except, not including
Pinyin chú
Strokes 9
Frequency 7723 of 2500 却
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 old variant of 卻|却[que4]
Pinyin què
Traditional 㕁
Strokes 7
Frequency 368 of 2500 巫
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Wu, also pr. [Wu2]
Pinyin Wū
Strokes 7
Frequency 39070 of 2500 山
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 surname Shan
Pinyin Shān
Strokes 3
Frequency 2411 of 2500 不
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 no; not so, (bound form) not; un-
Pinyin bù
Strokes 4
Frequency 9 of 2500 是
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 to be (followed by substantives only), correct; right; true, (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well, (adverb for emphatic assertion)
Pinyin shì
Strokes 9
Frequency 5 of 2500 云
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Strokes: KanjiVG , CC BY-SA 3.0 (classical) to say
Pinyin yún
Strokes 4
Frequency 7285 of 2500