polv's Chinese Learning Diary
千字文 - 1/9
by Pacharapol Withayasakpunt海咸河淡，鱗潛羽翔。
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| 海报 (海報) | hǎibào | poster / playbill / notice |
| 海外 | hǎiwài | overseas / abroad |
| 海洋 | hǎiyáng | ocean / CL: 個｜个 |
| 海口 | hǎikǒu | estuary / coastal inlet / river mouth / seaport / see also 誇海口｜夸海口 |
| 海关 (海關) | hǎiguān | customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個｜个 |
| 南海 | Nán Hǎi | South China Sea |
| 海绵 (海綿) | hǎimián | sponge (zoology) / sponge (piece of absorbent material, either natural or made from plastic etc) / foam rubber |
| 航海 | hánghǎi | sailing / navigation / voyage by sea |
| 海贼 (海賊) | hǎizéi | pirate |
| 海鲜 (海鮮) | hǎixiān | seafood |
| 咸鱼 (鹹魚) | xiányú | salted fish |
| 咸 | xián | all / everyone / each / widespread / harmonious |
| 咸 (鹹) | xián | salted / salty / stingy / miserly |
| 咸水 (鹹水) | xiánshuǐ | salt water / brine |
| 咸鸭蛋 (鹹鴨蛋) | xiányādàn | salted duck egg |
| 咸菜 (鹹菜) | xiáncài | salted vegetables / pickles |
| 黄河 (黃河) | Huáng Hé | Yellow River or Huang He |
| 银河 (銀河) | Yínhé | Milky Way / our galaxy |
| 天河 | Tiānhé | Milky Way / Tianhe district of Guangzhou city 廣州市｜广州市, Guangdong |
| 河流 | héliú | river / CL: 條｜条 |
| 淡 | dàn | insipid / diluted / weak / mild / light in color / tasteless / fresh / indifferent / nitrogen |
| 淡定 | dàndìng | calm and collected / unperturbed |
| 平淡 | píngdàn | flat / dull / ordinary / nothing special |
| 淡化 | dànhuà | to water down / to play down / to trivialize / to weaken / to become dull with time / to desalinate / desalination |
| 淡淡 | dàndàn | faint / dim / dull / insipid / unenthusiastic / indifferent |
| 淡水 | dànshuǐ | potable water (water with low salt content) / fresh water |
| 淡雅 | dànyǎ | simple and elegant |
| 淡出 | dànchū | to fade out (cinema) / to withdraw from (politics, acting etc) / to fade from (memory) |
| 清淡 | qīngdàn | light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored) / insipid / slack (sales) |
| 暗淡 | àndàn | dark / dim (light) / dull (color) / drab / (fig.) gloomy / bleak |
| 惨淡 (慘淡) | cǎndàn | dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort |
| 淡漠 | dànmò | apathetic / indifferent / unsympathetic |
| 鳞 (鱗) | lín | scales (of fish) |
| 鳞片 (鱗片) | línpiàn | scale / fish scales |
| 鱼鳞 (魚鱗) | yúlín | fish scales |
| 鳞甲 (鱗甲) | línjiǎ | scale / plate of armor |
| 鳞状细胞癌 (鱗狀細胞癌) | línzhuàngxìbāo'ái | squamous cell carcinoma |
| 遍体鳞伤 (遍體鱗傷) | biàntǐlínshāng | covered all over with cuts and bruises / beaten black and blue / be a mass of bruises |
| 鳞状 (鱗狀) | línzhuàng | scaly / squamous |
| 潜力 (潛力) | qiánlì | potential / capacity |
| 潜 (潛) | qián | hidden / secret / latent / to hide / to conceal / to submerge / to dive |
| 潜水 (潛水) | qiánshuǐ | to dive / to go under water / lurker (Internet slang for sb who reads forum posts but never replies) |
| 潜能 (潛能) | qiánnéng | potential / hidden capability |
| 潜在 (潛在) | qiánzài | hidden / potential / latent |
| 潜艇 (潛艇) | qiántǐng | submarine |
| 羽毛 | yǔmáo | feather / plumage / plume |
| 关羽 (關羽) | Guān Yǔ | Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama |
| 羽绒 (羽絨) | yǔróng | down (soft feathers) |
| 羽翼 | yǔyì | wing / (fig.) assistant |
| 羽化 | yǔhuà | levitation (of Daoist immortal) / to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven / (in Daoism) to become immortal / to die / of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form / eclosion |
| 翔 | xiáng | to soar / to glide / variant of 詳｜详 |
| 飞翔 (飛翔) | fēixiáng | to circle in the air / to soar |
| 翱翔 | áoxiáng | to soar / to wheel about in the sky |
| 滑翔 | huáxiáng | to glide |