滄海
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Meanings
1
the blue sea; blue waters
formal or literary
Formal or literary term for the vast blue ocean; often used in poetic or elevated contexts.
It is no more than a drop in the vast blue sea.
The poet sang of the blue sea.
Expressions
- 桑田滄海the world is ever-changing; vicissitudes of life
- 滄海桑田the world is in constant flux; the blue sea turns into a mulberry field
- 滄海の一粟drop in the bucket; drop in the ocean; a tiny fraction of the whole
- 桑田変じて滄海となるthe world is in constant flux; mulberry fields turn into blue seas