法海 (Fǎ hǎi): meaning and stroke order
法海 (Fǎ hǎi) means Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇传.
法海
- Simplified
- 法海
- Traditional
- 法海 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Fǎ hǎi
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Stroke order of 法海
法
- fǎ variant of 法[fa3]
- Fǎ France; French
- fǎ law; method
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 㳒
Stroke by stroke
海
- Hǎi surname Hai
- hǎi ocean; sea
- 10 strokes
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Meaning of 法海
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Fǎ hǎi
- Fahai, name of the evil Buddhist monk in Tale of the White Snake 白蛇傳|白蛇传[Bai2 she2 Zhuan4]
Radicals of the characters
- 法
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 去 on the right
- 海
- Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 10 strokes · 氵 on the left, 每 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
法海 in our stories
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可是，金山寺的和尚法海一眼就看出白素贞是蛇妖。他认为人和妖非分开不可，就去找许仙，告诉他妻子的真实身份。
kěshì Jīnshān Sì de héshang Fǎhǎi yìyǎn jiù kàn chū Bái Sùzhēn shì shéyāo tā rènwéi rén hé yāo fēi fēnkāi bùkě jiù qù zhǎo Xǔ Xiān gàosu tā qīzi de zhēnshí shēnfèn
But Fahai, a monk of Jinshan Temple, saw at a glance that Bai Suzhen was a snake spirit. Believing that humans and spirits simply had to be kept apart, he went to Xu Xian and told him his wife's true identity.
From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).