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)

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• 苦海无边(苦海無邊) a limitless sea of suffering
• 露脊鼠海豚 Indo-Pacific finless porpoise; finless porpoise
• 四海之内(四海之內) all within the four seas
• 阿尔茨海默氏病(阿爾茨海默氏病) Alzheimer's disease; senile dementia
• 海监船(海監船) naval surveillance vessel; maritime patrol boat
• 海涂(海塗) tidal marsh; shoal; shallows
• 海相沉积物(海相沉積物) oceanic sediment
• 地中海 Mediterranean Sea
• 海拔 elevation
• 石投大海 to disappear like a stone dropped into the sea; to vanish forever without trace
• 海军蓝(海軍藍) navy blue
• 威加海内兮归故乡(威加海內兮歸故鄉) With might that extends to the land within the seas, I return to my hometown
• 海鲈(海鱸) sea bass
• 白头海雕(白頭海鵰) bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
• 海归(海歸) Chinese returning from overseas
• 直布罗陀海峡(直布羅陀海峽) Strait of Gibraltar
• 海蛞蝓 sea slug
• 海洋性贫血(海洋性貧血) thalassemia
• 海狮(海獅) sea lion
• 海尔德兰(海爾德蘭) Gelderland
• 海陆煲(海陸煲) sea and land hotpot (Jiangsu specialty)
• 海里 nautical mile
• 海外奇谈(海外奇談) a strange story from abroad
• 霍尔木茲海峡(霍爾木茲海峽) Strait of Hormuz
• 江海同归(江海同歸) rivers all flow to the same ocean
• 海南柳莺(海南柳鶯) Hainan leaf warbler (Phylloscopus hainanus)
• 海洋 ocean
• 人海战术(人海戰術) human wave attack
• 海南蓝仙鹟(海南藍仙鶲) Hainan blue flycatcher (Cyornis hainanus)

Also contained in

大元海运记 、 海德尔堡 、 淮海 、 海北藏族自治州 、 上海大学 、 东海郡 、 海安 、 海南省 、 海晏 、 加勒比海 、 通海 、 爱琴海 、 南海区 、 海道经 、 海峡时报 、 海曙 、 瑶海 、 海盐县 、 海德格尔 、 海南岛 、 海德公园 、 淮海地区

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Truncated for common words

• 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
• 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 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
• 卷二十二　本紀第二十二: 武宗一 Volume 22 Annals 22: Wuzong 1 History of Yuan 元史 — 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