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航海 (háng hǎi): meaning and stroke order

航海 (háng hǎi) means to sail the seas, maritime navigation, voyage.

航海

Simplified
航海
Traditional
航海 (same form)
Pinyin
háng hǎi

Stroke order of 航海

航

  • háng boat; ship
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

海

  • Hǎi surname Hai
  • hǎi ocean; sea
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 航海

  1. háng hǎi
    • to sail the seas
    • maritime navigation
    • voyage

Radicals of the characters

航
Radical 舟 (Kangxi radical 137) · 10 strokes · 舟 on the left, 亢 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.

航海 in our stories

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  • 年轻的档案员陆遥接下了这件事。她先找到了“海兴号”的航海日志，最后一页写着：“风三级，海面平静。”

    niánqīng de dàng'ànyuán Lù Yáo jiē xià le zhè jiàn shì tā xiān zhǎodào le Hǎixīng hào de hánghǎi rìzhì zuìhòu yí yè xiě zhe fēng sān jí hǎimiàn píngjìng

    The young archivist Lu Yao took on the case. First she found the Haixing's logbook; the last page read: "Wind force three, sea calm."

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 航海

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).