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海

hǎi

sea

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 每 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

每 sound component

每  Sound component

měi

  

every

Evolution

海 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
海 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
海 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
海 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

海  

hǎi

sea, ocean; maritime; ocean; sea; CL:個|个[gè],片[piàn]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous

海  

Hǎi

surname Hai

Most common words with 海
Freq.
Word
Meaning

上海

Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]

海

ocean

海军

navy

海滩

beach

海盗

pirate

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

嗨

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤəʔ (dialect *m̥ˤ- > x-)

xojX

hǎi

sea


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 59.5867% of movies

424th most common character in movies

189th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D77

Shuowen

“海，天池也，以納百川者。从水，每聲。”


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