| 望洋兴叹 |
wàng yáng xīng tàn |
(lit.) to gaze at the ocean and lament one's inadequacy (idiom) / (fig.) to feel powerless and incompetent (to perform a task) |
| 望 |
wàng |
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards |
| 望 |
wàng |
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of 望 |
| 望洋 |
wàng yáng |
(literary) to gaze into the air |
| 洋 |
yáng |
ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin |
| 兴 |
Xīng |
surname Xing |
| 兴 |
xīng |
to rise / to flourish / to become popular / to start / to encourage / to get up / (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect) / maybe (dialect) |
| 兴 |
xìng |
feeling or desire to do sth / interest in sth / excitement |
| 叹 |
tàn |
to sigh / to exclaim |
| 叹 |
tàn |
variant of 叹 |