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海啸

hǎi xiào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 海嘯

海啸 (hǎi xiào) means "tsunami". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 海啸 means

1. tsunami

The characters in 海啸

• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things
• 啸xiào(of people) to whistle; (of birds and animals) to screech; to howl; to roar

Example sentences

• 海啸袭击日本。
  Tsunami hit Japan.
• 海啸的警报解除了。
  Hǎixiào de jǐngbào jiěchú le.
  The tsunami alert was cancelled.
• 海啸来了，密切注意啊。
  Hǎixiào lái le, mìqièzhùyì ā.
  A tsunami is coming, so please be on the alert.
• 海啸席卷稻田, 淹没了城镇。
  Hǎixiào xíjuǎn dàotián, yānmò le chéngzhèn.
  Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.
• 日本发生规模8.9的强烈地震, 引发强大海啸。
  Rìběn fāshēng guīmó bā diǎn jiǔ de qiángliè dìzhèn, yǐnfā qiángdà hǎixiào.
  An earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hits Japan and causes a massive tsunami.
• 菲律宾去年地震和海啸造成了超过6000人的死亡。
  Last year in the Philippines, earthquakes and tidal waves resulted in the deaths of more than 6,000 people.

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