Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 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, every(The same meaning has )
lying person(When this person is made flat, like in this radical, you get the: "lying person". (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting , sitting cross-legged , kneeling ⺈, skilled , bending ,, slumped or husband ))
mother(Shows '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

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