IDENTITY
海hǎisea; ocean
HSK 3Top 150
CORE MEANING
sea; ocean
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.seaHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵每
- water radical
- gives the sound hǎi (historical)
USAGE
Common words
上海ShànghǎiShanghai
海边hǎibiānseaside
海水hǎishuǐseawater
Graded examples
我喜欢在海边散步。Wǒ xǐhuan zài hǎibiān sànbù.HSK3
I like taking walks by the sea.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 悔
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) that every (每) river flows into — the sea.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #150
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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