"Billows" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 波涛 | bō tāo | great waves / billows |   |
| 波澜 | bō lán | billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum) | |
| 浪涛 | làng tāo | ocean wave / billows | |
| 涌浪 | yǒng làng | swell / billows / surging waves | |
| 推波助澜 | tuī bō zhù lán | to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom) / to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire | |
| 乘风破浪 | chéng fēng pò làng | to brave the wind and the billows (idiom) / to have high ambitions | |
| 滟 |  yàn | tossing of billows | |
| 翻涌 | fān yǒng | to roll over and over (of billows or clouds) | |
