洋
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ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 水 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 洋
- Common rank
- #344
- Unicode
- U+6D0B
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
ocean · Heisig RSH #530
水 water + 羊 sheep
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 洋
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 南洋理工大学 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore | |
| 大西洋国 | Historical name for Portugal during the Qing dynasty | |
| 洋大人 | (derog.) foreigner treated as superior; privileged Westerner | |
| 海洋学 | oceanography | |
| 大西洋 | Atlantic Ocean | |
| 西洋人 | Westerner | |
| 海洋性 | maritime | |
| 山口洋 | Singkawang city (Kalimantan, Indonesia) | |
| 北大西洋 | North Atlantic | |
| 南大洋 | Southern Ocean | |
| 联合国海洋法公约 | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | |
| 广东海洋大学 | Guangdong Ocean University | |
| 下西洋 | to sail west (from China) (used in reference to the 15th century voyages of Zheng He 鄭和|郑和… | |
| 大洋龙 | halisaurus | |
| 出洋相 | to make a fool of oneself | |
| 国家海洋局 | State Oceanic Administration (PRC) | |
| 西太平洋 | the western Pacific Ocean | |
| 大洋 | ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan | |
| 洋人 | foreigner; (esp.) Westerner | |
| 洋县 | Yang County or Yangxian, a county in Hanzhong City 漢中市|汉中市[Han4 zhong1 Shi4], Shaanxi |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 羊 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 羊 sound part | sheep, goat | |
| 养 | to raise, to rear, to bring up; to support | |
| 样 | form, pattern, shape, style | |
| 氧 | oxygen | |
| 鲜 | fresh; delicious; attractive | |
| 祥 | happiness, good fortune; auspicious | |
| 痒 | to itch; to tickle | |
| 详 | complete, detailed, thorough | |
| 翔 | to soar, to hover, to glide | |
| 羌 | Qiang nationality; surname | |
| 恙 | illness, sickness; indisposition | |
| 羟 | hydroxide | |
| 佯 | to pretend, to feign; false, deceitful | |
| 徉 | to wander, to stray, to roam; to hesitate | |
| 烊 | to smelt; to close for the night | |
| 庠 | village school; teach | |
| 羰 | carbonyl group | |
| 蛘 | rice weevil |