渤海

海上 hǎishàng #5,650

at sea / on the sea / maritime

碧海银沙 bìhǎiyínshā

jade-blue sea and silver sand / (of a coastline) crystal-clear sea and silver-white beaches

奔流到海不复回 bēnliúdàohǎibùfùhuí

rushes to the sea and returns no more / (fig.) irreversible forward flow — of water, time, or youth / (lit.) rush-flow reach sea not again return

碧海青天夜夜心 bìhǎiqīngtiānyèyèxīn

blue sea, green sky — her heart ached night after night / (fig.) eternal loneliness and regret, set against a cold cosmic backdrop / (lit.) emerald sea, azure sky, night-night heart

海刺参 hǎicìshēn

Japanese spiky sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) / prickly sea cucumber

苍茫云海间 cāngmángyúnhǎijiān

(the moon rises) amid the vast, boundless sea of clouds / (fig.) evokes the grand, lonely majesty of the moon over an endless cloudscape / (lit.) vast-boundless cloud-sea between

乘桴浮于海 chéngfúfúyúhǎi

ride a little raft and drift out to sea / (fig.) abandon a worldly-failed mission and retreat; Confucius's half-ironic sigh at the Way not being followed / (lit.) ride raft float on sea

春江潮水连海平 chūnjiāngcháoshuǐliánhǎipíng

the spring river's tide rises level with the sea / (fig.) a vast, merging horizon where river and ocean become one / (lit.) spring-river tide-water joins sea level

海上明月共潮生 hǎishàngmíngyuègòngcháoshēng

the bright moon on the sea rises together with the tide / (fig.) a sublime, cosmic image of simultaneity and natural grandeur / (lit.) sea — upon — bright — moon — together — tide — rise

海上升明月 hǎishàngshēngmíngyuè

the bright moon rises over the sea / a moonrise seen from afar, binding distant hearts / lit. on the sea rises the bright moon