The Chinese word for ocean is
洋
yáng
Chinese Definition
| ocean | |
| 1. 名词. 海洋，大洋 | |
| 2. 名词. （五大洋之一的）洋 | |
| 3. 名词. (喻) 大量，许多 |
Translations for ocean and their definitions
| 大洋 | |
| 1. n. ocean; sea (as a whole) | |
| 2. n. silver dollar | |
| 3. n. (colloquial) (a specific currency unit, e.g. yuan) |
| 海洋 | |
| 1. n. ocean; sea (as a whole) | |
| 海洋 博物館 - maritime museum | |
| 海洋 國家 - maritime state | |
| 海洋 環境 - marine environment | |
| 圖書館 是 人類 知識 的 海洋。 - Libraries contain knowledge of human experience as vast as the open sea. |
| 洋 | |
| 1. multitudinous; vast | |
| 2. ocean; vast area of sea; great expanse of water | |
| 太平洋 - the Pacific Ocean | |
| 3. overseas; foreign; western; imported | |
| 洋人 - foreigner (especially a westerner or Caucasian) | |
| 洋蔥 - onion, lit=Western green onion | |
| 4. modern; stylish; fashionable | |
| 5. novel; unusual | |
| 6. (historical or Shanghainese Wu) foreign money; dollar | |
| 撥 我 三 隻 洋。 - tr=4peq+3ngu&1se tsaq&3hhian, Give me three dollars., ref=2007, Qian Nairong, 上海话大词典, page 29, SH | |
| 7. (Min, Hakka, often in place names) plain; flatland | |
| 8. (historical) (place, zh, river, in southern, p/Shaanxi, c/China) |
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