海
hǎiHǎi HSK2

sea

海 hǎi frequency
ocean noun
the sea or ocean

那个孩子正光着脚在海里玩水。

nà​gè hái​zi zhèng guāng zhe jiǎo zài hǎi lǐ wán shuǐ.

The child is playing in the sea barefoot.

numerous noun
(dialect) numerous or large in quantity

他懂的东西可海了去了。

tā dǒng de dōng​xi kě hǎi le qù le.

His knowledge is vast; he knows an immense amount of things.

vast amount noun
a great number of people or things

商场打折期间，来买东西的人可真是成了海了。

shāng​chǎng dǎ​zhé qī​jiān, lái mǎi dōng​xi de rén kě zhēn shì chéng le hǎi le.

During the sale, the number of shoppers was truly a sea of people.

海 Hǎi
Hai proper name
surname Hai

海先生在图书馆工作。

Hǎi xiān​sheng zài tú​shū​guǎn gōng​zuò.

Mr. Hai works at the library.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
189th most common 1081.6 per million
Movie subtitles
424th most common 350.2 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
52.8 per million appears in 13% of films
Written text
200.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+6D77

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)