苦海無邊，回頭是岸

The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved!

bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly

lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery

surname Hai

ocean / sea / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous

not to have / no / none / not / to lack / un- / -less

without boundary / not bordered

side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL:個|个[ge4] / simultaneously

suffix of a noun of locality

to circle / to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return / to revolve / Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims) / time / classifier for acts of a play / section or chapter (of a classic book)

to curve / to return / to revolve

variant of 迴|回[hui2]

to turn round; to turn one's head / later; by and by

head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

suffix for nouns

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

variant of 岸[an4]

bank; shore; beach; coast / CL:個|个[ge4]