海 (hǎi)
ocean; sea; great number of people or things
How 海 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 海
- Simplified
- 海 (unchanged)
Common words using 海
- 上海 shànghǎi
- Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hu4]
- 大海 dàhǎi
- sea; ocean
- 海南 hǎinán
- Hainan Province, in the South China Sea, short name 瓊|琼[Qiong2], capital Haikou 海口; Hainan Island; Hainan District of Wuhai City 烏海市|乌海市[Wu1 hai3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia
- 海洋 hǎiyáng
- ocean; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 海量 hǎiliàng
- huge volume
- 海鮮 hǎixiān
- seafood
- 上海市 shànghǎishì
- Shanghai municipality in southeast China, abbr. 滬|沪
- 上海話 shànghǎihuà
- Shanghainese; Shanghai dialect
- 下海 xiàhǎi
- to go to sea; fig. to leave secure job (iron rice-bowl 鐵飯碗|铁饭碗) for sth better but more risky
- 中南海 zhōngnánhǎi
- Zhongnanhai, to the West of the Forbidden City, now the Communist Party headquarters
- 人山人海 rénshānrénhǎi
- multitude; vast crowd
- 人海 rénhǎi
- a multitude; a sea of people
海 in a sentence
住在海邊的人，每天都可以聽見海浪的聲音。
Zhù zài hǎibiān de rén, měitiān dōu kěyǐ tīngjiàn hǎilàng de shēngyīn.
“People living by the seaside can hear the sound of the waves every day.”
How common is 海?
海 is the 189th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 54.6% of all running text.
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