边 邊 biān side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL:個|个[ge4] / simultaneously syn 界 jiè (bound form) boundary / border / (bound form) realm syn 极限 極限 jí xiàn limit / extreme boundary syn 边界 邊界 biān jiè boundary / border syn 界限 jiè xiàn boundary syn 境界 jìng jiè boundary / state / realm syn 国界 國界 guó jiè national boundary / border between countries 无边 無邊 wú biān without boundary / not bordered syn 交界 jiāo jiè common boundary / common border syn 端倪 duān ní boundary / clue / indication / to obtain clues / to infer syn 止境 zhǐ jìng limit / boundary / end syn 临界 臨界 lín jiè critical / boundary syn 临界点 臨界點 lín jiè diǎn critical point / boundary point 边际 邊際 biān jì limit / bound / boundary / (economics) marginal syn 边界线 邊界線 biān jiè xiàn boundary line / border line 界碑 jiè bēi boundary stone / table marking border syn 疆界 jiāng jiè border / boundary syn 边儿 邊兒 biān r side / edge / margin / border / boundary / proximity / thread (of ideas, plots etc) / see also 邊|边[bian1] 分野 fēn yě dividing line between distinct realms / boundary / field-allocation (in Chinese astrology, the association between celestial regions and corresponding terrestrial realms) syn 划界 劃界 huà jiè boundary delimitation 省界 shěng jiè provincial boundary 坠海 墜海 zhuì hǎi to fall into the ocean / to crash into the ocean 野 yě field / plain / open space / limit / boundary / rude / feral syn 际 際 jì border / edge / boundary / interval / between / inter- / to meet / time / occasion / to meet with (circumstances) syn 境 jìng border / place / condition / boundary / circumstances / territory syn 畔 pàn (bound form) side / edge / boundary syn 茫 máng vast, with no clear boundary / fig. hazy / indistinct / unclear / confused 疆 jiāng border / boundary syn 定界 dìng jiè demarcation / boundary / delimited / bound (math.) 边界层 邊界層 biān jiè céng boundary layer 圻 qí boundary / a border 畛 zhěn border / boundary / field-path 垓 gāi boundary syn 徼 jiào boundary / to go around 埏 yán boundary 海 hǎi ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous syn 大海 dà hǎi sea / ocean syn 海洋 hǎi yáng ocean / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 太平洋 tài píng yáng Pacific Ocean 海底 hǎi dǐ seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean 大西洋 dà xī yáng Atlantic Ocean 大洋 dà yáng ocean / (old) silver dollar / (slang) Chinese yuan syn 斐济 斐濟 fěi jì Fiji, country in the southwest Pacific Ocean 海面 hǎi miàn the surface of the sea / ocean surface 汹涌 洶湧 xiōng yǒng to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc) / turbulent syn 西洋 xī yáng the West (Europe and North America) / countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional) 邮轮 郵輪 yóu lún ocean liner / cruise liner syn 浪花 làng huā spray / ocean spray / spindrift / fig. happenings from one's life / CL:朵[duo3] syn 浩瀚 hào hàn vast (of ocean) / boundless syn 洋流 yáng liú ocean current syn 远洋 遠洋 yuǎn yáng distant seas / the open ocean (far from the coast) syn 寒流 hán liú cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream syn 印度洋 yìn dù yáng Indian Ocean 浪涛 浪濤 làng tāo ocean wave / billows syn 北冰洋 běi bīng yáng Arctic ocean 洋面 yáng miàn ocean surface 浩荡 浩蕩 hào dàng vast and mighty (of river or ocean) / broad and powerful syn 曾经沧海 曾經滄海 céng jīng cāng hǎi lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) / fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life syn 中远 中遠 zhōng yuǎn China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) (abbr. for 中國遠洋運輸|中国远洋运输[Zhong1 guo2 Yuan3 yang2 Yun4 shu1]) 下西洋 xià xī yáng to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和[Zheng4 He2] to regions bordering the Indian Ocean) 西太平洋 xī tài píng yáng the western Pacific Ocean 沧海一粟 滄海一粟 cāng hǎi yī sù a drop in the ocean (idiom) syn 横断 橫斷 héng duàn to cross (a road, an ocean etc) / to cut across 欲海 yù hǎi ocean of lust (Buddhist term) / worldly desires 漂洋 piāo yáng to cross the ocean 中国海 中國海 zhōng guó hǎi the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea) 九牛一毛 jiǔ niú yī máo lit. one hair from nine oxen (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean syn 积少成多 積少成多 jī shǎo chéng duō (idiom) many little things add up to sth great / many little drops make an ocean syn 望洋兴叹 望洋興嘆 wàng yáng xīng tàn lit. to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / fig. to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task) syn 洋 yáng ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin syn 摩加迪沙 mó jiā dí shā Mogadishu, Indian ocean seaport and capital of Somalia 海床 hǎi chuáng seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean 沧 滄 cāng (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green / (literary) cold 水圈 shuǐ quān the earth's ocean / the hydrosphere (geology) 瓦努阿图 瓦努阿圖 wǎ nǔ ā tú Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean 南冰洋 nán bīng yáng Southern Ocean 翻车鱼 翻車魚 fān chē yú ocean sunfish (Mola mola) 精卫填海 精衛填海 jīng wèi tián hǎi lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom) / futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds syn 邮船 郵船 yóu chuán mailboat / ocean liner syn 烟海 煙海 yān hǎi the vast ocean 瀚 hàn ocean / vastness syn 瀛 yíng ocean syn 地壳边界 地殼邊界 continent / ocean boundary / oceanic / continental crust boundary / crust boundary 增生板块边界 增生板塊邊界 accreting plate boundary / divergent plate boundary / divergent boundary 离散板块边界 離散板塊邊界 accreting plate boundary / divergent plate boundary / divergent boundary 表面边界层 biǎo miàn bian jiè céng surface boundary layer / ground layer / atmospheric boundary layer 大气边界层 大气邊界層 dài qì bian jiè céng atmospheric boundary layer / surface boundary layer 岩层不整合界限 巖層不整合界限 lithostratigraphic unconformity boundary / unconformity boundary 洋底 yáng dǐ ocean floor / bottom of the ocean 大洋钻探计划 大洋鉆探計劃 Ocean Drilling Project / Ocean Drilling Programme 大陆地壳和海洋地壳过渡区 大陸地殼和海洋地殼過渡區 continent / ocean crust transition / continent-ocean transition 南极和南极洋合作研究中心 南極和南極洋合作研究中心 Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment / Cooperative Research Centre for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean 南极研究中心 南極研究中心 Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment / Cooperative Research Centre for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean 沧海一粟 滄海一粟 cāng hǎi - yī sù lit. one grain floating on the ocean (idiom) / fig. a drop in the ocean syn 第三纪 第三紀 dì sān jì third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago) 堮 è a boundary / a border 勘界 kān jiè boundary survey 圉限 yǔ xiàn boundary / limit 大陆坡 大陸坡 dà lù pō continental slope (boundary of continental shelf) syn 底界 dǐ jiè lower boundary 