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大海

dà hǎi

2-character word

What 大海 means

1. sea
2. ocean

The characters in 大海

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things

Example sentences

• 大海是蓝色的。
  The sea is blue.
• 我的房子面朝大海
  Wǒ de fángzi miàn cháo dàhǎi
  My house looks toward the sea.
• 这好比大海捞针。
  Zhè hǎobǐ dàhǎilāozhēn.
  It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Words containing 大海

• 石沉大海shí chén dà hǎilit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom)…
• 石投大海shí tóu dà hǎito disappear like a stone dropped into the sea; to vanish forever without trace
• 胖大海pàng dà hǎimalva nut; seed of Sterculia lychnophora