hāi

an exclamation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

海 sound component

  Sound component

hǎi

  

sea

Definitions

 

hāi

an exclamation; oh alas; hey!; hi! (loanword); a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 68.5888% of movies

301st most common character in movies

3294th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+55E8


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