Explanation of foreign characters Foreign characters. Chapter 7 of "Hate the Sea": "The foreigner took out foreign paper and pencils from his pocket, drew a lot of foreign characters, and gave them to uncle and me." Word analysis The explanation of ocean Ocean á A larger body of water than the sea: the ocean. Vast, numerous, abundant: overflowing. Yangyang. Refers to foreigners, foreigners: foreigners. Foreign goods. Use foreign materials to serve China. Refers to modernization (different from "earth"): a combination of earth and foreign countries. Silver Dollar: Ocean. foreign money. Tuzhong Number of strokes:; Radical: 氵; Explanation of the character The character ì is a symbol used to record language: text. Chinese character. character . letter . dictionary. words. Between the lines (俷). weigh every word. Different forms of writing, schools of calligraphy: cursive characters. Seal characters. The word Yan. Liu character. European character. The word Zhao. Calligraphy works: calligraphy and painting. Font size. The pronunciation of the word: Zi Zhengqiang