海 hǎi
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 每 each, every
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
海面
hǎimiàn
sea surface
Characters in this word
面 miàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 面 — face
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 清晨的海面异常平静，几乎看不出昨夜曾经有风暴。 Qīngchén de hǎimiàn yìcháng píngjìng, jīhū kàn bù chū zuóyè céngjīng yǒu fēngbào. The sea surface was unusually calm in the early morning, with almost no sign that there had been a storm the night before.
- 太阳升起来的时候，海面被染成了金黄色。 Tàiyáng shēng qǐlái de shíhou, hǎimiàn bèi rǎn chéng le jīnhuángsè. When the sun came up, the surface of the sea was dyed golden.
- 一只海鸥贴着海面飞过，又很快飞远了。 Yì zhī hǎi'ōu tiēzhe hǎimiàn fēi guò, yòu hěn kuài fēi yuǎn le. A seagull skimmed across the sea and quickly flew far away.