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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
the mind / the brain
HSK 7-9
coastal / bordering the sea
HSK 7-9
to sail the seas / maritime navigation / voyage
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
Sea of Japan
to overlook the sea / on the waterfront
Jianghai district of Jiangmen city 江門市|江门市, Guangdong
Baltic 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
offshore / open sea
Caribbean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
(coll.) bald crown; male pattern baldness
vast as the open sea (idiom); fig. extensive (library)
(fig.) the whole world
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
sea of learning / erudite / knowledgeable person / scholarship
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
to go out to sea / (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
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)
deep sea
Yellow Sea
a sea of flames
the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea)
bangs / fringe (hair)
Yellow Sea (Korean term)
high sea / international waters
Aegean Sea
Zhenhai district of Ningbo city 寧波市|宁波市, Zhejiang
Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬|沪)
to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) / to achieve one's aim by underhanded means
Guangdong-Hainan
(dialect) to gather seafood at the beach while the tide is out; to comb the beach for shellfish, crabs or other marine life
North Sea (in Europe) / historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖, Russia
Yinhai district of Beihai city 北海市, Guangxi
moviedom / the world of movies / film circles
shallow sea / sea less than 200 meters deep
abbr. for 台灣海峽|台湾海峡, Taiwan Strait
lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds
Caspian Sea
Adriatic Sea
(lit.) abyss and ocean / (fig.) vast and profound
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
Jinghai, a district of Tianjin 天津 / Sea of Tranquility (lunar feature)
may your happiness be as immense as the East Sea (idiom)
Ouhai district of Wenzhou city 溫州市|温州市, Zhejiang
to make one's living from the sea
Irish Sea between Ireland and north England
Bering Sea
Xingxiuhai Basin in Qinghai, more than 4000m above sea level, featuring numerous lakes large and small
Black Sea
Xinghai county in Hainan Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海南藏族自治州, Qinghai
vast area / all the way to the sea
(idiom) multitude; vast crowd
Changhai county in Dalian 大連|大连, Liaoning
White Sea
lit. having crossed the vast ocean (idiom) / fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life
Aral Sea
to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight
the vast ocean
all things tend in one direction (idiom)
Barents Sea
Ninghai county in Ningbo 寧波|宁波, Zhejiang
a dark sea
a mountain of paperwork and a sea of meetings (idiom)
Mongol surname
the Dead Sea
officialdom / bureaucracy
Qionghai City, Hainan
lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance
lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
Tonghai county in Yuxi 玉溪, Yunnan
Banda Sea, in the East Indian Archipelago
territorial waters
ocean of lust (Buddhist term) / worldly desires
lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response
the eye can see nothing worthwhile all around (idiom); arrogant / condescending / supercilious
Bohai Sea, between Liaoning and Shandong
Parhae, Korean kingdom in Manchuria and Siberia, 698-926
Sea of Okhotsk
river of literacy, sea of learning (idiom); ars longa, vita brevis
variant of 劉海|刘海
all parts of the country
Timor Sea

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