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曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云

céng jīng cāng hǎi nán wéi shuǐ , chú què Wū Shān bù shì yún

15-character word Traditional 曾經滄海難為水，除卻巫山不是雲

What 曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云 means

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

The characters in 曾经沧海难为水，除却巫山不是云

• 曾céngonce; already; ever (in the past)
• 经jīngclassics; sacred book; scripture
• 沧cāng(bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold
• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 为wéias (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 除chúto get rid of; to remove; to exclude
• 却quèbut; yet; however
• 巫wūwitch; wizard; shaman
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 云yún(classical) to say