海 (hoi2 | hai3) : sea, ocean

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海

hoi2

hai3

[1] [n] sea; ocean; maritime [2] a great number of people or thing coming together; huge gathering [3] [n] area; field [4] great; unlimited [5] a Chinese family name [6] [Wu] direction; side (strictly used after North, South, etc.)

Stroke count: 10

Level: 2

Radical: 水 (#85)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

海

Don't confuse with:
每母

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:43

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海馬 hoi2 maa5 = sea-horse

海鮮 hoi2 sin1 hai3 xian1 = seafood

上海 soeng6 hoi2 shang4 hai3 = Shanghai

大海 daai6 hoi2 = ocean

海洋 hoi2 joeng4 hai3 yang2 = ocean

海星 hoi2 sing1 = starfish; sea star

南海 naam4 hoi2 nan2 hai3 = South China Sea; Namhoi

海草 hoi2 cou2 hai3 cao3 = seaweed

海水魚 hoi2 seoi2 jyu4*2 = a sea fish 粵

人山人海 jan4 saan1 jan4 hoi2 ren2 shan1 ren2 hai3 = a large crowd; people everywhere
See all 334 compounds (CantoDict reports 351 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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年卅呀晚呢度人山人海直情水泄不通粵
On the 30th night, this place will be completely filled with people, impossible to move.

他本來想在沿海城市工作國
At first he intended to work in a coastal city.

目前的金融海嘯可能成爲黃金復興的契機
This economic tsunami could well be the turning point for gold to be fashionable again.

呢個復活節係咪去北海道滑雪,重係十劃都未有一撇。粵
It's still far too early to tell if we are going skiing in Hokkaido this Easter.
[In this sentence, the third character 都 in the idiom 十劃都未有一撇 could be moved three spaces up so that the latter half of the sentence would become 都重係十劃未有一撇. The meaning would remain the same. ]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 海
Unicode code for this character: U+6D77 (off-site link)

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