lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom) / futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds
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United States Coast Guard
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Linhai, a county-level city in Taizhou City 台州市[], Zhejiang
Seaboard Geographic Gazetteer (c. 275) by Shen Ying 沈瑩|沈莹
abbr. for 台灣海峽|台湾海峡, Taiwan Strait
Xinghai, a county in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海南藏族自治州[], Qinghai
Caohai Lake, Guizhou
(literary) to be renowned abroad / to gain fame overseas
(bird species of China) Turkestan ground jay / Pander's ground jay (Podoces panderi)
Yellow Sea (Korean term)
Xu Haifeng (1957-), PRC sharpshooter, 50m pistol gold medalist at Los Angeles 1984 Olympics
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast (Tw)
(dialect) to gather seafood at the beach while the tide is out / to comb the beach for shellfish, crabs or other marine life
Cihai, encyclopedic dictionary of Chinese first published in 1936
Tonghai, a county in Yuxi City 玉溪市[], Yunnan
Dardanelles Strait / Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı
east and south of Liaoning province
Hao Haidong (1970-), former Chinese soccer player
Sea of Okhotsk
Yinhai, a district of Beihai City 北海市[], Guangxi
Zhenhai, a district of Ningbo City 寧波市|宁波市[], Zhejiang
Evergreen Marine Corp. (Taiwan shipping line)
Changhai, a county in Dalian City 大連市|大连市[], Liaoning
Arabian Sea
Arafura Sea
Jiangsu-Gansu railway / abbr. for 隴海鐵路|陇海铁路[]
Jiangsu-Gansu railway
Horkheimer (philosopher)
Strait of Hormuz
Qinghai Lake (Tibetan: mtsho-sngon)
Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市[] (short name 青[])
Jinghai, a district of Tianjin 天津[] / Sea of Tranquility (lunar feature)
Strait of Tartary between Sakhalin and Russian mainland
Fahrenheit, Taiwanese boy band (2005–2012)
Strait of Malacca
Sea of Marmara
Mariana Trench
Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
Aral Sea
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