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沿海

yán hǎi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

沿海 (yán hǎi) means "coastal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 沿海 means

1. coastal

The characters in 沿海

• 沿yánalong; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on
• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things

Example sentences

• 中国大陆的沿海城市普遍比内陆城市发达。
  Zhōngguó dàlù de yánhǎi chéngshì pǔbiàn bǐ nèilù chéngshì fādá.
  Chinese coastal cities are generally more developed than the inland ones.
• 中国大陆的沿海有渤海，黄海，东海和南海。
  Zhōngguó dàlù de yánhǎi yǒu Bó Hǎi, Huáng Hǎi, Dōng Hǎi hé Nán Hǎi.
  The Chinese mainland's coasts are surrounded by the Bohai sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China sea and the South China sea.

Words starting with 沿海

• 沿海州yán hǎi zhōucoastal region; refers to Russian far east Primorsky Krai
• 沿海地区yán hǎi dì qūcoastland; coastal areas

Where 沿海 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yán hǎi correctly.
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