北洋水師 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 北洋水师 běiyángshuǐshī ㄅㄟˇ ㄧㄤˊ ㄕㄨㄟˇ ㄕ north China navy (esp. the ill-fated Chinese navy in the 1895 war with Japan) Character by character 北(běi)north 洋(yáng)ocean 水(shuǐ)surname Shui 師(shī)surname Shi A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0