海
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ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 海
- Common rank
- #29
- Unicode
- U+6D77
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
sea · Heisig RSH #469
每 every + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 海
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人山人海 | (idiom) multitude; vast crowd | |
| 大海 | sea; ocean | |
| 海子 | (dialect) wetlands; lake | |
| 人海 | a multitude; a sea of people | |
| 中国海 | the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea… | |
| 山海 | mountains and seas | |
| 海市 | (lit. and fig.) mirage | |
| 海水 | seawater | |
| 地中海 | Mediterranean Sea | |
| 地中海 | (coll.) bald crown; bald spot on the crown of the head | |
| 上海大学 | Shanghai University | |
| 海拉尔区 | Hailar, a district of Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 学海 | sea of learning; erudite; knowledgeable person; scholarship | |
| 海斯 | (name) Hayes | |
| 海地 | Haiti | |
| 海尔 | Haier (PRC household appliance brand); Hale (name) | |
| 马尔马拉海 | Sea of Marmara | |
| 海马 | (zoology) sea horse; (anatomy) hippocampus (abbr. for 海馬體|海马体[hai3 ma3 ti3]) | |
| 上海市 | Shanghai municipality (short name 滬|沪[Hu4]) | |
| 海拉尔 | see 海拉爾區|海拉尔区[Hai3 la1 er3 Qu1] |
Sound family
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