大海

sea / ocean

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

surname Hai

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

lit. to fish a needle from the sea / to find a needle in a haystack (idiom)

lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response

to disappear like a stone dropped into the sea / to vanish forever without trace

malva nut / seed of Sterculia lychnophora

marine trench