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海拔

hǎi bá

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

海拔 (hǎi bá) means "altitude, height above sea level". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 海拔 means

1. height above sea level
2. elevation

The characters in 海拔

• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things
• 拔báto pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction

Example sentences

• 这个镇海拔1500米。
  Zhège Zhènhǎi bá 1500 mǐ.
  The town is situated 1,500 meters above sea level.
• 珠穆朗玛峰的海拔有多高？
  Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng de hǎibá yǒu duō gāo?
  What is the height of Mt. Everest?
• 这座城市海拔1600米。
  Zhè zuò chéngshì hǎibá 1600 mǐ.
  This city is 1,600 meters above sea level.
• 这座山海拔 2000米。
  The mountain is 2000 meters above sea level.
• 阿尔卑斯山脉义大利一侧的海拔通常较低。
  The Alps are generally lower on the Italian side.
• 德国阿尔卑斯山的树线位于海拔约 1800 公尺处。
  The treeline in the German alps lies at an elevation of about 1800 meters.

Where 海拔 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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hǎi bá correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.