Memory phrase for the character: 海


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Meaning ocean, sea

Pronunciation

hǎi

Explanation

Left: water , right: every (every person = has a mother ) [ = woman with emphasized swollen breasts : when breast-feeding]

Mnemonic


 
Water is in every ocean.

Radicals

Water
each, everyThe same meaning has
lying personThis radical can be seen as a person who has the right leg horizontal . He is thus lying. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting , sitting cross-legged , kneeling , skilled , bending ,, slumped or husband )
motherShows 'woman' with a longer right stroke and with two dots : that are swollen breasts of a nursing (breast-feeding) woman.
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 Vocabulary

上海 Shàng hǎi  Shanghai municipality, central east China
秋海棠 qiū hǎi táng  begonia
海棠花 hǎi táng huā  Chinese flowering crab-apple (Malus spectabilis)
海藻 hǎi zǎo  seaweed; marine alga; kelp
鄂霍次克海 È huò cì kè hǎi  sea of Okhotsk
民答那峨海 Mín dā nà é Hǎi  Mindanao Sea
郝海东 Hǎo Hǎi dōng  Hao Haidong
鼠海豚 shǔ hǎi tún  porpoise
海鸥 hǎi ōu  seagull
海鸥 hǎi ōu  
海鸥 hǎi ōu  
海鸥 hǎi ōu  

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