TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字
洋
洋 ＝ 氵 ＋ 羊
ㄧㄤˊ · yáng
noun/adj — ocean; vast; foreign (Western)
字源 FORM — what the parts do
氵義water
Water (氵) with 羊 yáng for the sound — it began as the name of a river. Water without bound spread the word to the open sea: 海洋, 太平洋. From the boundless, anything overflowing (洋溢) and anything that came over the great water — the foreign, the Western (洋人、洋房).
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
水（氵）漫到看不見邊，一片汪洋。
The water (氵) spreads past the horizon — an open ocean.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)海洋、太平洋— ocean, sea常用
→洋溢、汪洋— brimming, vast
⇒洋人、西洋— foreign, Western — from over the sea常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension