北海 (bak1 hoi2 | bei3 hai3) : the North Sea; (placename) Pak Hoi

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北海

bak1 hoi2

bei3 hai3

the North Sea; (placename) Pak Hoi

Level: 2
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

北海

This word has been viewed 2172 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 27th Mar 2006 06:44 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 19:03

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北 bak1 - north
海 hoi2 - sea, ocean

1 compounds containing this word:

北海道 - Hokkaido (prefecture in north of Japan)

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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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