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[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. |
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Don't confuse with: 每母 |
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海浪 hoi2 long6 = sea wave 海馬 hoi2 maa5 = sea-horse 海鮮 hoi2 sin1 = seafood 上海 soeng6 hoi2 = Shanghai 大海 daai6 hoi2 = ocean 海洋 hoi2 joeng4 = ocean 海星 hoi2 sing1 = starfish; sea star 南海 naam4 hoi2 = South China Sea; Namhoi 海味 hoi2 mei6*2 = dried seafood 海草 hoi2 cou2 = seaweed See all 352 compounds (CantoDict reports 369 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 4 examples containing 海
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.
目前的金融海嘯可能成為黃金復興的契機
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. ] |