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HSK
sea / ocean
HSK 2
coast / seaside / seashore / beach
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *海* | 海* | *海
ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
HSK 2
customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
seafood
HSK 4
seawater
HSK 4
poster / playbill / notice
HSK 6
overseas; abroad
HSK 6
navy
HSK 6
seabed / seafloor / bottom of the ocean
HSK 6
sea wave
HSK 6
coastal
HSK 6
bay / gulf
HSK 6
ocean / CL: 個|个
HSK 6
coastal / seacoast
HSK 7-9
shipping by sea
HSK 7-9
sea area / territorial waters / maritime space
HSK 7-9
huge volume
HSK 7-9
the mind / the brain
HSK 7-9
coastal / bordering the sea
HSK 7-9
domestic and international; at home and abroad
HSK 7-9
to sail the seas / maritime navigation / voyage
HSK 7-9
(zoology) sea sponge / (esp.) dried sea sponge / sponge (made from polyester or cellulose etc) / foam rubber
HSK 7-9
height above sea level / elevation
HSK 7-9
shore / seaside
HSK 7-9
strait; channel
HSK 7-9
tsunami
HSK 7-9
the surface of the sea; ocean surface
HSK 7-9
to go out to sea / to enter the sea (to swim etc) / (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)
HSK 7-9
seaweed / marine alga / kelp
HSK 7-9
beach / CL:
HSK 7-9
pirate
HSK 7-9
Sea of Japan
nautical mile
to overlook the sea / on the waterfront
The Hague (seat of government of the Netherlands)
Jianghai district of Jiangmen city 江門市|江门市, Guangdong
Baltic Sea
Hainan Island in South China Sea
Red Sea
(neologism) highly competitive market (contrasted with 藍海|蓝海)
Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council
Hai He (a system of five waterways around Tianjin, flowing into Bohai 渤海 at Dagukou 大沽口)
offshore / open sea
maritime
Haier (PRC household appliance brand) / Hale (name)
Haydn (name) / Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer
Caribbean Sea
dolphin
Mediterranean Sea
(coll.) bald crown; male pattern baldness
vast as the open sea (idiom); fig. extensive (library)
Qinghai Province, capital Xining 西寧市|西宁市 (abbr. to )
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
(fig.) the whole world
Hainan Province, capital Haikou 海口市 (abbr. to 瓊|琼)
marine / produced in sea
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and journalist
manatee
heroin (loanword)
Binhai (place name) / Binhai New District, subprovincial district of Tianjin / Binhai county in Yancheng 鹽城|盐城, Jiangsu / fictitious city Binhai in political satire / Primorsky, a territory in the far east of Russia
(dialect) hot pepper
sea of learning / erudite / knowledgeable person / scholarship
sea lily / crinoid
Emperor of the Sea / Neptune
Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州, including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *海* | 海* | *海
surname Hai
South China Sea
Fuhai county or Burultoqay nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Haifa (city in Israel)
the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
turtle / Internet slang for 海歸|海归
to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
to stuff oneself with food
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
Menghai county in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture 西雙版納傣族自治州|西双版纳傣族自治州, Yunnan
East China Sea / East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography)
foreign edition (of a newspaper)
(name) Helen or Hélène / see 海倫市|海伦市
Haiti
seascape / sea view
Menghai county in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture 西雙版納傣族自治州|西双版纳傣族自治州, Yunnan
deep sea
Weihai, prefecture-level city in Shandong Province 山東省|山东省
(Persian) Gulf
cape / promontory
Chenghai Lake in Lijiang 麗江市|丽江市, Hunan
sea snail / whelk / conch
sea urchin
Tunghai University (in Taichung, Taiwan)
sea and land
sea angling
maritime affairs / accident at sea
Yellow Sea
sea warfare; naval battle

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