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sea / ocean
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *海* | 海* | *海
ocean / sea / CL: 個|个, / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
HSK 2
coastal
HSK 6
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
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
to sail the seas / maritime navigation / voyage
HSK 7-9
lit. mountains of daggers and seas of flames / fig. extreme danger (idiom)
Arabian Sea
Zhongnanhai, palace adjacent to the Forbidden City, now the central headquarters of the Communist Party and the State Council
Caribbean Sea
Shichahai, scenic area of northwest Beijing with three lakes
Houhai, a lake and the area surrounding it in central Beijing
the high seas; international waters
Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece
to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
the mind / the brain
HSK 7-9
(fig.) the whole world
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) / to achieve one's aim by underhanded means
Jinghai, a district of Tianjin 天津 / Sea of Tranquility (lunar feature)
offshore / open sea
(neologism) an unexplored, as yet uncontested market (contrasted with 紅海|红海)
Sea of Azov in southern Russia
to become known far and wide (idiom) / famous
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
the Dead Sea
Caspian Sea
Red Sea
(neologism) highly competitive market (contrasted with 藍海|蓝海)
Sea of Galilee
lit. to climb mountains of swords and enter seas of flames (idiom) / fig. to go through trials and tribulations (often, for a noble cause)
shallow sea / sea less than 200 meters deep
officialdom / bureaucracy
all parts of the country
(idiom) multitude; vast crowd
Xian Xinghai (1905-1945), violinist and composer, known for patriotic wartime pieces, including Yellow River Oratorio 黃河大合唱|黄河大合唱
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
Black Sea
Huaihai, economic hub around Xuzhou 徐州, including parts of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds
East China sea
abbr. for 台灣海峽|台湾海峡, Taiwan Strait
lit. a clay ox enters the sea (idiom); fig. to disappear with no hope of returning
a sea of flames
Mediterranean Sea
(coll.) bald crown; male pattern baldness
rivers, lakes and oceans / bodies of water
deep sea
the vast ocean
bangs / fringe (hair)
to drain (wastewater) into the sea
Baltic Sea
Erhai Lake
Fahrenheit, Taiwan pop group, from 2005
South China Sea
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *海* | 海* | *海
surname Hai
the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
to come to mind / to come to one's attention
lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response
a multitude / a sea of people
elevation (above sea level)
Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, Taiwan technology company, aka Foxconn
North Sea (in Europe) / historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖, Russia
lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) / fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life
Aegean Sea
vast area / all the way to the sea
Aral Sea
lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature
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
Ninghai county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Zhejiang
Qionghai City, Hainan
Bering Sea
to make one's living from the sea
Jiangsu-Gansu railway / abbr. for 隴海鐵路|陇海铁路
inland sea (e.g. Mediterranean) / internal sea (wholly within the territory of one country – e.g. Bohai Sea)
Andaman Sea
Xingxiuhai Basin in Qinghai, more than 4000m above sea level, featuring numerous lakes large and small
coastal / bordering the sea
territorial waters
land reclamation
East China Sea / East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography)
Fuhai county or Burultoqay nahiyisi in Altay prefecture 阿勒泰地區|阿勒泰地区, Xinjiang
Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇傳|白蛇传
White Sea
Yellow Sea (Korean term)
Yellow Sea
to fall into the ocean / to crash into the ocean
Adriatic Sea
Bay of Biscay (Spanish: Mare Cantabrico)
a mountain of paperwork and a sea of meetings (idiom)
river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis
Mongol surname

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