The sea is blue.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大海
sea
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
sea
02
ocean
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大海 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大海 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My house looks toward the sea.
Bill lives near the sea.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大海.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大海.
Directly before
- 热爱大海2
- 靠近大海2
- 通往大海1
- 向大海1
- 拥有大海1
Directly after
- 大海的2
- 大海恢复1
- 大海附近1
- 大海是1
- 大海呢1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 大海
What does 大海 mean in Chinese?
大海 (dàhǎi) means sea.
How do you pronounce 大海?
大海 is pronounced dàhǎi.
Is 大海 an HSK word?
大海 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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