HSK 6 · Places

沿海 yánhǎi “coastal” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 沿海 means

  1. coastal
  2. coastal area

How to say 沿海

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale沿yán2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale海hǎi3rd tone, dipping

沿海 in a sentence

  1. 中国大陆的沿海城市普遍比内陆城市发达。

    Zhōngguó dàlù de yánhǎi chéngshì pǔbiàn bǐ nèilù chéngshì fādá.

    Coastal cities in mainland China are generally more developed than inland ones.

    Sentence #1746077 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 浙江省地处中国东南沿海，隶属于华东地区。

    Zhèjiāng Shěng dìchǔ Zhōngguó dōngnán yánhǎi, lìshǔ yú Huádōng dìqū.

    Zhejiang Province is located on the southeastern coast of China and belongs to the East China region.

    Sentence #13953757 from Tatoeba

How 沿海 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 沿 (yán) with each of its parts in a different colour
沿yánalong
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 几table · jī
  • 口mouth · kǒu
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.

How to write 沿海

沿 8 strokes · 海 10 strokes

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

Words related to 沿海

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FAQs

沿海 (yánhǎi) means “coastal” or “coastal area”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it yánhǎi: yán with a 2nd tone, then hǎi with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 沿海 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yanhai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 沿海 from the suggestions. Typing yanhai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
沿海 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.