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) | |