零丁洋

Língdīng Yáng

proper noun

Meanings

HSK 4

零丁洋就在珠江的入海口。

Língdīng Yáng jiù zài Zhūjiāng de rùhǎikǒu.

The Lingding Sea lies at the mouth of the Pearl River.

HSK 7-9

文天祥被元军押着经过零丁洋时，写下了《过零丁洋》。

Wén Tiānxiáng bèi Yuánjūn yā zhe jīngguò Língdīng Yáng shí, xiěxià le 《 Guò Língdīng Yáng 》.

Carried across the Lingding Sea as a prisoner of the Yuan army, Wen Tianxiang wrote "Crossing the Lingding Sea".

culture

零丁 also means "alone and forlorn", and 文天祥 built a line of his poem on the pun: 零丁洋里叹零丁, "on the Lingding Sea I sigh at being alone".

usage

Today the waters are usually written 伶仃洋, with 伶仃 "alone and helpless". The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge crosses them.

零 líng

丁 dīng

洋 yáng