海
Meanings
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- 1.ocean
- 2.sea
- 3.CL:个[gè],片[piàn]
- 4.great number of people or things
- 5.(dialect) numerous
- 1.surname Hai
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Wiktionary
- 1.sea; ocean
- 2.big lake
- 3.wide river, especially the Pearl River
- 4.big; large
- 5.overseas; abroad
- 6.sea; abundance; infiniteness
- 7.profuse; numerous
- 8.unrestrainedly; randomly; casually
- 9.a surname, Hai (Mainland China, Taiwan) or Hoi (Hong Kong)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hmlɯːʔ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ). Probably related to 晦 (OC *hmɯːs, “dark”); in numerous Zhou texts 海 is described as 晦 (Schuessler, 2007). Compare the parallelism in Chinese: 溟 (OC *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ, “ocean”) < 冥 (OC *meːŋ, “dark”). STEDT compares 海 (OC *hmlɯːʔ) to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“foggy; dark; sullen; menacing; thunder”), but the rhymes are incompatible. Lai reconstructs a new cognate set connecting this word with Bokar simu (“lake”) and Khroskyabs rbó (“pond”). To cover these cognates, something like Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m̥əq would have to be reconstructed.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我在海邊度假。
I spent my vacation at the beach.
我加入了海軍。
I went into the navy.
海盜們上了船。
The pirates boarded the ship.
讓我們去海邊吧。
Let's go to the beach.
我們去海邊游泳。
We went swimming at the beach.
這輛公車去海灘嗎？
Does this bus go to the beach?
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Derived terms
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