海
hǎiTraditional: 海
HSK 1
#150 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
sea
Word origin
海 (hǎi) 'sea' is a phono-semantic compound. The water radical 氵on the left marks it as a body of water, while 每 (měi) on the right supplies the sound. The character names the great body of salt water, the sea.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 氵(water, semantic) + 每 (měi, phonetic)
Stroke order
海
Examples
。
I like looking at the sea.
。
There are many fish in the sea.
座。
That island is in the middle of the sea.
海 (hǎi) means sea.
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