HSK 5 · Food

海鲜 hǎixiān “seafood” in Chinese

Traditional 海鮮

What 海鲜 means

  1. seafood

How to say 海鲜

  • 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鲜xiān1st tone, high and level

海鲜 in a sentence

  1. 她喜欢海鲜。

    Tā xǐhuan hǎixiān.

    She likes seafood.

    Sentence #4638687 from Tatoeba

  2. 我要吃鱼和海鲜。

    Wǒ yào chī yú hé hǎixiān.

    I want to eat fish and seafood.

    Sentence #471393 from Tatoeba

  3. 基隆的海鲜餐厅非常有名。

    Jīlóng de hǎixiān cāntīng fēicháng yǒumíng.

    Keelung’s seafood restaurants are very famous.

    Sentence #13547804 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 海鲜 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 鲜 (xiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
鲜xiānfresh
  • 鱼fish · yúMeaning part
  • 羊sheep · yángSound part

鱼 hints at the meaning (fish); 羊 (yáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with xiān.

How to write 海鲜

海 10 strokes · 鲜 14 strokes

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

Words related to 海鲜

Words with 海

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

Words with 鲜

新鲜xīnxiān · fresh experience鲜艳xiānyàn · bright-coloured鲜明xiānmíng · distinct

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FAQs

海鲜 (hǎixiān) means “seafood”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it hǎixiān: hǎi with a 3rd tone, then xiān 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, 海鲜 is written 海鮮. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type haixian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 海鲜 from the suggestions. Typing haixian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
海鲜 is an HSK 5 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.