The fish are in the sea.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
海里
nautical mile
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
nautical mile
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 海里 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 海里 appears in 18 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
There are islands in the sea.
The octopus is in the sea.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 海里.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 海里.
Directly before
- 在海里11
- 沉到海里1
- 了海里1
- 到海里1
- 去海里1
Directly after
- 海里游泳5
- 海里去1
- 海里都1
- 海里有岛1
- 海里游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 海里
What does 海里 mean in Chinese?
海里 (hǎilǐ) means nautical mile.
How do you pronounce 海里?
海里 is pronounced hǎilǐ.
Is 海里 an HSK word?
海里 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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