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海峡

hǎi xiá

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

海峡 (hǎi xiá) means "strait; channel". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 海峡 means

1. strait; channel

The characters in 海峡

• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things
• 峡xiágorge

Example sentences

• 这个海峡对游艇来说太窄了。
  Zhège hǎixiá duì yóutǐng lái shuō tài zhǎi le.
  The straits were too narrow for the cruise ship.
• 他是游过英吉利海峡的唯一一个美国人。
  Tā shì yóu guo Yīngjílì Hǎixiá de wéiyī yī gè Měiguórén.
  He is the only American who has swum the English Channel.
• 他是唯一一个游过英吉利海峡的美国人。
  Tā shì wéiyī yī gè yóu guo Yīngjílì Hǎixiá de Měiguórén.
  He is the only American who has swum the English Channel.

Words starting with 海峡

• 海峡时报Hǎi xiá Shí bàoThe Straits Times
• 海峡群岛Hǎi xiá Qún dǎoChannel Islands
• 海峡交流基金会Hǎi xiá Jiāo liú Jī jīn huìStraits Exchange Foundation (SEF); abbr. to 海基会
• 海峡两岸关系协会Hǎi xiá Liǎng àn Guān xi Xié huìPRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS)

Words containing 海峡

• 台湾海峡Tái wān Hǎi xiáTaiwan Strait
• 加来海峡Jiā lái Hǎi xiáStrait of Calais in the English channel; Strait of Dover…
• 厄勒海峡È lè Hǎi xiáØresund; The Sound (strait between Denmark and Sweden)
• 对马海峡Duì mǎ Hǎi xiáTsushima Strait, between Japan and South Korea
• 巴士海峡Bā shì Hǎi xiáBashi Channel in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan
• 朝鲜海峡Cháo xiǎn Hǎi xiáKorea Strait; Tsushima Strait (between Japan and Korea)
• 柔佛海峡Róu fó Hǎi xiáStraits of Johor (between Malaysia and Singapore)
• 白令海峡Bái lìng Hǎi xiáthe Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)
• 墨西拿海峡Mò xī ná Hǎi xiáStrait of Messina between Calabria and Sicily
• 新海峡时报Xīn Hǎi xiá Shí bàoNew Strait Times (newspaper)
• 英吉利海峡Yīng jí lì Hǎi xiáEnglish Channel
• 奥特朗托海峡Ào tè lǎng tuō Hǎi xiáStrait of Otranto between the heel of Italy and Albania
• 直布罗陀海峡Zhí bù luó tuó Hǎi xiáStrait of Gibraltar
• 达达尼尔海峡Dá dá ní ěr Hǎi xiáDardanelles Strait; Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı
• 霍尔木兹海峡Huò ěr mù zī Hǎi xiáStrait of Hormuz
• 琼州海峡Qióng zhōu Hǎi xiáQiongzhou Strait (between Hainan Island and mainland China)
• 吕宋海峡Lǚ sòng Hǎi xiáLuzon Strait between Taiwan and Luzon Island (Philippines)
• 鞑靼海峡Dá dá Hǎi xiáStrait of Tartary between Sakhalin and Russian mainland
• 巽他海峡Xùn tā Hǎi xiáSunda Strait between Sumatra and Java
• 马六甲海峡Mǎ liù jiǎ Hǎi xiáStrait of Malacca
• 布里斯托尔海峡Bù lǐ sī tuō ěr Hǎi xiáBristol Channel in southwest England
• 波斯普鲁斯海峡Bō sī pǔ lǔ sī Hǎi xiáthe Bosphorus (strait)

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