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海鲜

hǎi xiān

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 海鮮

海鲜 (hǎi xiān) means "seafood". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 海鲜 means

1. seafood

The characters in 海鲜

• 海hǎiocean; sea; great number of people or things
• 鲜xiānfresh; bright (in color); delicious

Example sentences

• 她喜欢海鲜。
  Tā xǐhuan hǎixiān.
  She likes seafood.
• 我要吃鱼和海鲜。
  I want to eat fish and seafood.
• 我很喜欢吃海鲜。
  I really like seafood.
• 基隆的海鲜餐厅非常有名。
  The seafood restaurants in Keelung are very famous.
• 如果你喜欢吃海鲜的话，你就来对地方了！
  If you like seafood, you've come to the right place!
• 他第一次约会就选了义大利餐厅，点了海鲜义大利面，希望留下浪漫印象。
  For his first date, he chose an Italian restaurant and ordered seafood pasta, hoping to leave a romantic impression.

Words starting with 海鲜

• 海鲜酱hǎi xiān jiànghoisin sauce (barbecue sauce); seafood sauce

Where 海鲜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel, Events & Social Venues (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hǎi xiān correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.