海
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Translingual[edit]
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Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]
Old Chinese Initial /*m-/ lends semantic value Concealment. Phono-semantic indicator 毎 (dark) + semantic indicator 水 water → dark body of water. Source: Howell & Morimoto
Etymology[edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 每
The Old Chinese word is believed to have been pronounced very much like 每, with an m- initial. Baxter-Sagart reconstruct the Old Chinese as *m̥ˤəʔ; compare with 每 *mˤəʔ.
Appears with 母 (2 dots) in Chinese, yielding 海, but with simplified form 毋 (1 cross stroke) in Japanese shinjitai, yielding 海 = 氵 + 毎. These are however encoded with the same Unicode character – see Han unification.
Han character[edit]
海 (radical 85 水+7 in Chinese, 水+6 in Japanese, in Chinese 10 strokes, in Japanese 9 strokes, cangjie input 水人田卜 (EOWY), four-corner 38157)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 625, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17450
- Dae Jaweon: page 1023, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1627, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6D77
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
海 (jyutping hoi2, Yale hoi2)
Hmong[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
海
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
Readings[edit]
Compounds[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Probably from compound of u (“stem indicating ocean”) (compare uo (“fish”), ushio (“salt water”)) and mi (“water”)
Noun[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 海路 (うなじ, unaji): sea route
- 海辺 (うみべ, umibe): beach, seashore
- 海鳥 (うみどり, umidori): sea bird
- 海原 (うなばら, unabara): ocean, sea
- 海草 (うみぐさ, umigusa): seaweed
- 大海 (おおうみ, ooumi): ocean, large sea
- 海風 (うみかぜ, umikaze): sea breeze
- 荒海 (あらうみ, araumi): rough sea
- 海山 (うみやま, umiyama): sea and mountains
- 血の海 (ちのうみ, chi no umi): pool of blood
- 海亀 (うみがめ, umigame): sea turtle
- 海の幸 (うみのさち, umi no sachi): seafood
- 海沿い (うみぞい, umizoi): coastlands
- 海狸 (うみだぬき, umidanuki): beaver
- 海鳴り (うみなり, uminari): rumbling of the sea
- 海綿 (うみわた, umiwata): sponge
- 鰻 (うなぎ, unagi): eel
- 青海原 (あおうなばら, aounabara); blue sea
- 入海 (いりうみ, iriumi); bay, inlet, gulf, creek
- 外海 (そとうみ, sotoumi); open seas
- 泥海 (どろうみ, doroumi); muddy sea
- 海牛 (うみうし, umiushi); sea slug
Noun[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 温海 (あつみ, atsumi): warm sea
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
海 (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae, Yale hay)
Compounds[edit]
Mandarin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Hanzi[edit]
海 (pinyin hǎi (hai3), Wade-Giles hai3)
Compounds[edit]
Middle Chinese[edit]
Han character[edit]
海 (*xə̌i)