HSK 6 · Places

海滨 hǎibīn “seaside” in Chinese

Traditional 海濱

What 海滨 means

  1. seaside
  2. seashore
  3. shore

How to say 海滨

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale海hǎi3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale滨bīn1st tone, high and level

海滨 in a sentence

  1. 他是一家海滨餐厅的服务员。

    Tā shì yì jiā hǎibīn cāntīng de fúwùyuán.

    He is a waiter in a seaside restaurant.

    Sentence #5958725 from Tatoeba

  2. 阿尔及尔有一条美丽的海滨长廊。

    Ā'ěrjí'ěr yǒu yì tiáo měilì de hǎibīn chángláng.

    Algiers has a beautiful promenade on the seashore.

    Sentence #8558444 from Tatoeba

How 海滨 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 海 (hǎi) with each of its parts in a different colour
海hǎiocean
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 每each · měiSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 每 (měi) hints at the sound. Compare it with hǎi.

The character 滨 (bīn) with each of its parts in a different colour
滨bīnwater’s edge; bank; shore
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 宾guest · bīnSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 宾 (bīn) hints at the sound. Compare it with bīn.

How to write 海滨

海 10 strokes · 滨 13 strokes

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海滨 (hǎibīn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 海滨 (hǎibīn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 海滨

Words with 海

海hǎi · sea海洋hǎiyáng · ocean海鲜hǎixiān · seafood海关hǎiguān · customs (i.e. border crossing inspection)海拔hǎibá · height above sea level沿海yánhǎi · coastal

More words: Places & Geography

跟前gēnqián · in front of宫殿gōngdiàn · palace故乡gùxiāng · hometown海拔hǎibá · height above sea level角落jiǎoluò · corner基地jīdì · base (of operations)籍贯jíguàn · ancestral home井jǐng · well (for water)

FAQs

海滨 (hǎibīn) means “seaside” or “seashore”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hǎibīn: hǎi with a 3rd tone, then bīn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 海滨 is written 海濱. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haibin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 海滨 from the suggestions. Typing haibin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
海滨 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.