暖房 nuǎn fáng heating / central heating / greenhouse / hothouse / to pay a house-warming visit syn 坠海 墜海 zhuì hǎi to fall into the ocean / to crash into the ocean 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 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 全球变暖 全球變暖 quán qiú biàn nuǎn global warming (PRC usage) / written 全球暖化 in Taiwan 全球气候变暖 全球氣候變暖 quán qiú qì hòu biàn nuǎn global warming 全球气候升温 全球氣候升溫 quán qiú qì hòu shēng wēn global warming 世界变暖 世界變暖 shì jiè biàn nuǎn global warming 全球暖化 quán qiú nuǎn huà global warming (Taiwan and Hong Kong usage) / written 全球變暖|全球变暖 in PRC 大气暖化 大氣暖化 dà qì nuǎn huà atmospheric warming 旋子 鏇子 xuàn zi large metal plate for making bean curd / metal pot for warming wine syn 暖化 nuǎn huà warming 气候暖化 氣候暖化 qì hòu nuǎn huà climate warming 煦暖 xù nuǎn to warm / warming 全球升温 全球升溫 quán qiú shēng wēn global warming 全球升温潜能值 quán qiú shēng wēn qián néng zhí global warming potential 全球升温和海平面上升问题马累宣言 全球升溫和海平面上升問題馬累宣言 Male Declaration on Global Warming and Sea Level Rise 气温升高 气溫升高 qì wēn shēng gāo warming 盉 hé vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine 海洋温度 海洋溫度 hǎi yáng wēn dù ocean temperature 中远集团 中遠集團 zhōng yuǎn jí tuán COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Company) 中央海岭 中央海嶺 zhōng yāng hǎi lǐng mid-ocean ridge (geology) 中洋脊 zhōng yáng jǐ mid-ocean ridge (geology) 中脊 zhōng jǐ mid-ocean ridge (geology) 厄尔尼诺現象 厄爾尼諾现象 è ěr ní nuò xiàn xiàng El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean 大洋中脊 dà yáng zhōng jǐ mid-ocean ridge (geology) 大西洋中脊 dà xī yáng zhōng jǐ Atlantic mid-ocean ridge 大西洋洋中脊 dà xī yáng yáng zhōng jǐ Atlantic mid-ocean ridge 底锡斯海 底錫斯海 dǐ xī sī hǎi Thetys (hypothetical ocean between Africa and Eurasia in geological history) 广东海洋大学 廣東海洋大學 guǎng dōng hǎi yáng dà xué Guangdong Ocean University 查戈斯群岛 查戈斯群島 chá gē sī qún dǎo Chagos Archipelago, coral archipelago in tropical Indian Ocean, with Diego Garcia 迪戈·加西亞島|迪戈·加西亚岛[Di2 ge1 · Jia1 xi1 ya4 Dao3] as largest island 汗漫 hàn màn vast / without boundaries / power (of a river or ocean) 洋中脊 yáng zhōng jǐ mid-ocean ridge (geology) 洋洋大篇 yáng yáng dà piān lit. an ocean of writing / an impressive literary work (idiom) 洋漂族 yáng piāo zú lit. ocean drifting people / job-hopping foreigner 洋脊 yáng jǐ mid-ocean ridge 海岭 海嶺 hǎi lǐng mid-ocean ridge 海洋温差发电 海洋溫差發電 hǎi yáng wēn chā fā diàn ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) 海砂 hǎi shā sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore) 渊海 淵海 yuān hǎi (lit.) abyss and ocean / (fig.) vast and profound syn 特提斯海 tè tí sī hǎi Tethys (pre-Cambrian ocean) 留尼汪 liú ní wāng Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) 众毛攒球 眾毛攢毬 zhòng máo zǎn qiú many little drops make an ocean (idiom) 罗摩诺索夫山脊 羅摩諾索夫山脊 luó mó nuò suǒ fū shān jǐ Lomonosov ridge (in the Artic Ocean) 迪戈·加西亚岛 迪戈·加西亞島 DigeJiaxiyadao Diego Garcia tropical island and US military base in the Indian Ocean, main island of Chago archipelago 查戈斯群島|查戈斯群岛 远涉 遠涉 yuǎn shè to cross (the wide ocean) 额尔齐斯河 額爾齊斯河 é ěr qí sī hé Irtysh River, flowing from southwest Altai in Xinjiang through Kazakhstan and Siberia to the Arctic Ocean 威克岛 威克島 wēi kè dǎo Wake Island (North Pacific Ocean) 