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  hoi6   jyutping
  hai4   pinyin
[1] [n] harm; evil; disadvantage | [ant]
[2] [n] disaster; pest; scourge
[3] [adj] harmful; destructive; injurious | [ant]
[4] [v] do harm to; cause trouble to
[5] [v] kill; murder; assassinate
[6] [v] contract (illness); suffer from
[7] [v] feel (afraid, astonished, etc)

nounAdditional PoS: adjectiveverb
Stroke count: 10
Level: 1
Radical: (#40)

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

This word has been viewed 9880 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 7th Aug 2013 15:06

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detail  syun2 hoi6  sun3 hai4 = to harm; to damage; to injure
detail  soeng1 hoi6  shang1 hai4 = to injure; to hurt; to harm
detail  saat3 hoi6  sha1 hai4 = to murder; to kill
detail  beng6 cung4 hoi6  bing4 chong2 hai4 = diseases and pests
detail  hoi6 cyu3  hai4 chu5 = disadvantage
detail  jau5 hoi6  you3 hai4 = harmful
detail  zoi1 hoi6  zai1 hai4 = scourge
detail  haam6 hoi6  xian4 hai4 = to frame; to blame an innocent party
detail  cam1 hoi6  qin1 hai4 = to encroach; to infringe
detail  ngai4 hoi6  wei1 hai4 = to jeopardise; to harm; to endanger
See all 55 compounds (CantoDict reports 56 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 4 examples containing 害
detail audio 吸煙危害健康, 只要每日, 已經足以致命
Smoking is very harmful; as long as you smoke one cigarette a day, it's enough to cause death
detail 利害三兩下手勢做低對手
His opponent was defeated in no time. He is really formidable.
detail 跟住落嚟受害者
Carrying on, the victims...
detail 最近吸煙危害健康吖嘛!
I've recently quit smoking, 'cause smoking is hazardous to health, right !
[吖嘛 is used here to reason out a statement that seems evidently true.]
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