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
海啸
hǎixiào
tsunami
Characters in this word
啸 xiào
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 海啸预警系统能否及时启动，直接关系到沿海居民的生死。 Hǎixiào yùjǐng xìtǒng néng fǒu jíshí qǐdòng, zhíjiē guānxì dào yánhǎi jūmín de shēngsǐ. Whether the tsunami warning system can be activated in time is directly related to the lives of coastal residents.
- 看到海水突然退得很远，人们意识到海啸要来了。 Kàndào hǎishuǐ tūrán tuì de hěn yuǎn, rénmen yìshí dào hǎixiào yào lái le. Seeing the sea suddenly pull far back, people realised a tsunami was coming.
- 海啸来之前，沿海的居民已经转移到了高处。 Hǎixiào lái zhīqián, yánhǎi de jūmín yǐjīng zhuǎnyí dào le gāochù. Before the tsunami arrived, the coastal residents had already moved to high ground.