曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云

there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

surname Zeng

once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause)

great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)

once / already / former / previously / ever / (past tense marker used before verb or clause)

surname Jing

classics / sacred book / scripture / to pass through / to undergo / to bear / to endure / warp (textile) / longitude / menstruation / channel (TCM) / abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]

blue-green or azure (of water) / vast (of water) / cold

lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) / fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life

surname Hai

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

perils of the sea

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold

to bother / to press sb, usu. to do sth / it's a tough job / sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)

as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)

because of / for / to

variant of 為|为[wei2] / as (i.e. in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do

variant of 為|为[wei4]

variant of 為|为[wei2]

surname Shui

water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

to get rid of / to remove / to exclude / to eliminate / to wipe out / to divide / except / not including

old variant of 卻|却[que4]

but / yet / however / while / to go back / to decline / to retreat / nevertheless / even though

surname Wu / also pr. [Wu2]

witch / wizard / shaman / also pr. [wu2]

Mt Wu on the Changjiang River (Yangtze) by the Three Gorges

Wushan county in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan

mountain / hill / anything that resembles a mountain / CL:座[zuo4] / bundled straw in which silkworms spin cocoons / gable

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

fault / blame

no / is not / not

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)

(classical) to say

surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]

cloud / CL:朵[duo3]