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嗨

hāi

HSK 6 Character

What 嗨 means

1. oh alas
2. hey!
3. hi! (loanword)
4. a high (natural or drug-induced) (loanword)

Example sentences

• 嗨。
  Hi.
• 嗨！你好吗？
  Hi! How are you?
• 嗨，你怎幺样？
  Hi! How are you?
• 嗨，请保持安静。
  Hey guys, please be quiet.
• 嗨, 我是南西。
  Hi, I'm Nancy.
• 嗨，你还在这里吗？
  Hāi, nǐ hái zài zhèlǐ ma?
  Hey, are you still here?

Words starting with 嗨

• 嗨药hāi yào(slang) to take drugs; recreational drug

Words containing 嗨

• 口嗨kǒu hāi(net slang) to talk a big game; to be all talk and no action
• 自嗨zì hāi(slang) to have fun by oneself; to amuse oneself

Characters that look like 嗨

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 稀xīsparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 锦jǐnbrocade; embroidered work; bright
• 畴chóuarable fields; cultivated field; class
• 锤chuíhammer; to hammer into shape; weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance)
• 嗅xiùto smell; to sniff; to nose
• 嗝géhiccup; belch

Sounds the same

Read hāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 咳sound of sighing; (interjection expressing surprise, sorrow, regret, disappointment etc)…
• 咍(interj.); happy; sound of laughter

Where 嗨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · guò–huán (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hāi correctly.
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