海

ocean; sea; CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]; great number of people or things; (dialect) numerous

10 strokes Dict coverage rank #29 U+6D77

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 (semantic, “water”) + 每 (phonetic, měi)

components: 氵每

sea · Heisig RSH #469

每 every + 水 water

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 每

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 每 (měi) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
每 sound component	měi	each, every
梅	méi	plum; prune; surname
霉	méi	mildew, mold, rot
敏	mǐn	fast, quick; clever, smart
悔	huǐ	to regret, to repent, to show remorse
酶	méi	enzyme; to ferment
莓	méi	moss; edible berries
晦	huì	dark, obscure, unclear; night
诲	huì	to teach, to instruct; to encourage, to urge
脢	méi	flesh

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
人山人海	rén shān rén hǎi	(idiom) multitude; vast crowd
大海	dà hǎi	sea; ocean
海子	hǎi zi	(dialect) wetlands; lake
人海	rén hǎi	a multitude; a sea of people
中国海	Zhōng guó Hǎi	the China Seas (the seas of the Western Pacific Ocean, around China: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea…
山海	shān hǎi	mountains and seas
海市	hǎi shì	(lit. and fig.) mirage
海水	hǎi shuǐ	seawater
地中海	Dì zhōng Hǎi	Mediterranean Sea
地中海	dì zhōng hǎi	(coll.) bald crown; bald spot on the crown of the head
上海大学	Shàng hǎi Dà xué	Shanghai University
海拉尔区	Hǎi lā ěr Qū	Hailar, a district of Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市\|呼伦贝尔市[Hu1 lun2 bei4 er3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia
学海	xué hǎi	sea of learning; erudite; knowledgeable person; scholarship
海斯	Hǎi sī	(name) Hayes
海地	Hǎi dì	Haiti
海尔	Hǎi ěr	Haier (PRC household appliance brand); Hale (name)
马尔马拉海	Mǎ ěr mǎ lā Hǎi	Sea of Marmara
海马	hǎi mǎ	(zoology) sea horse; (anatomy) hippocampus (abbr. for 海馬體\|海马体[hai3 ma3 ti3])
上海市	Shàng hǎi Shì	Shanghai municipality (short name 滬\|沪[Hu4])
海拉尔	Hǎi lā ěr	see 海拉爾區\|海拉尔区[Hai3 la1 er3 Qu1]