海 hǎi

1. hǎi noun the sea; a sea; the ocean
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Geography
   Notes: For example, 黄海 'Yellow Sea' (ABC 'hǎi' n 1; Guoyu '海' n 1; Kroll 2015 '海' 1; NCCED '海' 1; Wikipedia '海' 1)
2. hǎi adjective foreign
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '海' 2)
3. hǎi noun a large lake
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 大湖; for example, 青海 'Lake Qinghai' (ABC 'hǎi' n 2; Guoyu '海' n 3; Kroll 2015 '海' 2; NCCED '海' 4)
4. hǎi noun a large mass
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: Comparing a large mass of people or objects as an analogy to the sea; for example, 人海 'a sea of people' (ABC 'hǎi' bf 1; Guoyu '海' n 4; Kroll 2015 '海' 3; NCCED '海' 5)
5. hǎi adjective having large capacity
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: (ABC 'hǎi' bf 2; Guoyu '海' adj; NCCED '海' 6)
6. hǎi proper noun Hai
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (ABC 'hǎi' N)
7. hǎi noun seawater
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 海水 (Guoyu '海' n 2)
8. hǎi noun a field; an area
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 领域; for example, 苦海无边 'a limitless sea of suffering' (Guoyu '海' n 5)
9. hǎi noun a large and barron area of land
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 荒远之地 (Guoyu '海' n 6)
10. hǎi noun a large container
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '海' n 7)
11. hǎi adverb arbitrarily
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 任意的 (Guoyu '海' adv 1)
12. hǎi adverb ruthlessly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 狠狠的 (Guoyu '海' adv 2)

Contained in

• 海军少校(海軍少校) lieutenant commander (UK and US Navy equivalent)
• 南海舰队(南海艦隊) South Sea Fleet
• 留海 bangs or fringes of hair
• 人不可貌相，海水不可斗量 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot
• 沿海地区(沿海地區) coastland; coastal areas
• 月海 lunar mare
• 海藻 seaweed; marine alga; kelp
• 海砂屋 house built with cheap, unreliable concrete which contains a high quantity of sea sand
• 海员(海員) sailor; mariner
• 日本海 Sea of Japan
• 上海证券交易所综合股价指(上海證券交易所綜合股價指) Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Composite Index
• 海底 seabed; seafloor
• 海百合 crinoid
• 石沉大海 to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea; to elicit no response
• 跨海大桥(跨海大橋) bay bridge
• 海洋性贫血(海洋性貧血) thalassemia
• 海军少将(海軍少將) rear admiral
• 海马(海馬) sea horse; hippocampus ; hippocampus
• 海船 a sea-going ship
• 海砂 sea sand
• 黑叉尾海燕 Swinhoe's storm petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis)
• 白腹海雕(白腹海鵰) white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
• 海外赤子 patriotic overseas compatriot
• 深海烟囱(深海煙囪) deep-sea vent; black smoker
• 花海 a field of flowers
• 阿尔茨海默氏症(阿爾茨海默氏症) Alzheimer's disease; senile dementia
• 宽吻海豚(寬吻海豚) bottle-nosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
• 冼星海 Xian Xinghai
• 海峡交流基金会(海峽交流基金會) Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF)
• 海日 sun over sea
• 航海者 navigator

Also contained in

海端 、 海城 、 淮海战役 、 山海关之战 、 海伦·凯勒 、 瑶海区 、 海德堡 、 海东地区 、 红海 、 海事处 、 瓯海区 、 萨拉米斯大海 、 宁海 、 联合国海洋法公约 、 海峡两岸关系 、 吕宋海峡 、 亚速海 、 海城区 、 福海 、 海神庙

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• 卷四十五 志第二十一 地理六 Volume 45 Treatises 21: Geography 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 64
• 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 53
• 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 47
• 卷二百〇五 列傳第九十三 朱紈 張經 胡宗憲 曹邦輔 李遂 唐順之 Volume 205 Biographies 93: Zhu Wan, Zhang Jing, Hu Zongxian, Cao Bangfu, Li Sui, Tang Shunzhi History of Ming 明史 — count: 47
• 卷八十八 志第六十四 河渠六 Volume 88 Treatises 64: Rivers and Canals 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 41
• 卷四十一 志第十七 地理二 Volume 41 Treatises 17: Geography 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 41
• 第四十五回 Chapter 45 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 38
• 卷四十四 志第二十 地理五 Volume 44 Treatises 20: Geography 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 30
• 卷四十一 志第二十一: 地理四 Volume 41 Treatises 21: Geography 4 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 29
• 卷八十七 志第六十三 河渠五 Volume 87 Treatises 63: Rivers and Canals 5 History of Ming 明史 — count: 29

Collocations

• 入海 (入海) 寡人且用此入海矣 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 29
• 山海 (山海) 唯官山海為可耳 — Guanzi 管子, 海王第七十二 Chapter 72: King of the Sea — count: 17
• 海中 (海中) 言海中有三神山 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 14
• 负海 (負海) 以負海攻負海 — Guanzi 管子, 霸言第二十三 Chapter 23: The Sovereign's Words — count: 12
• 海求 (海求) 入海求僊人 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 11
• 横海 (橫海) 以橫海將軍擊東越功 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《建元以來侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period — count: 10
• 海将军 (海將軍) 以橫海將軍擊東越功 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《建元以來侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period — count: 9
• 沧海 (滄海) 東見滄海君 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷六 復恩 Chapter 6: Repaying Kindness — count: 7
• 海春 (海春) 項王乃謂海春侯大司馬曹咎等曰 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《項羽本紀》 Annals of Xiang Yu — count: 6
• 东至海 (東至海) 侵車東至海 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 4