洪波

hóngbō

noun

Meanings

HSK 6

江面上洪波翻滚，船只难以靠岸。

Jiāngmiàn shàng hóngbō fāngǔn, chuánzhī nányǐ kào'àn.

Great waves rolled on the river, and boats could hardly reach the shore.

HSK 7-9

秋风萧瑟，洪波涌起。

Qiūfēng xiāosè, hóngbō yǒngqǐ.

The autumn wind sighs, and great waves surge up.

history

The phrase 秋风萧瑟，洪波涌起 is from Cao Cao's 《观沧海》 (Viewing the Blue Sea), one of the most famous landscape poems of the Three Kingdoms era.

洪 hóng

波 bō