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Word and Radical Components of 海绵

The Chinese word 海绵 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
海绵 1. Simplified form of 海綿

海绵 ⇨ 海 + 绵
Component Pinyin Meanings
海 hǎi 1. sea; ocean
     好 想 去 看 海。 - I really want to go and look at the sea.
2. big lake
     洱海 - Er Lake
3. (Cantonese) wide river
4. (of containers, amount, etc.) big; large
     海碗 - extra large bowl
     海量 - huge amount
     海 投 - to send résumés to many companies; to use shotgun approach in job hunting
     海 扁 - to beat someone tremendously
5. overseas; abroad
     海棗 - date palm
6. (figurative) sea; abundance; infiniteness
     人海 - huge crowd
     火海 - sea of flames
7. (dialectal, colloquial) profuse; numerous
8. (dialectal, colloquial) unrestrainedly; randomly; casually
9. . Hai (mainland China, Taiwan), Hoi (Hong Kong)
     海 瑞 - Hai Rui (Chinese scholar-official of the Ming dynasty)
绵 1. Simplified form of 綿

海 ⇨ 氵 + 每
Component Pinyin Meanings
水 shuǐ 1. water
     請 給 我 一 杯 水，謝謝。 (Qǐng gěi wǒ yī bēi shuǐ, xièxiè.) - A glass of water, please.
     喝水 - hēshuǐ - to drink water
     冰水 - bīngshuǐ - iced water
     冷水 - lěngshuǐ - cold water
     凍水 - dung3 seoi2 - cold water, C
     熱水 - rèshuǐ - hot water
     開水 - kāishuǐ - boiled water
     滾水 - gwan2 seoi2 - boiled water, C
     水族館 - shuǐzúguǎn - aquarium
     水彩 - shuǐcǎi - watercolour
     水溫 - shuǐwēn - water temperature
     雨水 - yǔshuǐ - rainwater
     海水 - hǎishuǐ - seawater
     飲用水 - yǐnyòngshuǐ - drinking water
     礦泉水 - kuàngquánshuǐ - mineral water
     蒸餾水 - zhēngliúshuǐ - distilled water
     水閘 - shuǐzhá - sluice
     水力發電 - shuǐlìfādiàn - hydroelectricity
     碳水化合物 - tànshuǐhuàhéwù - carbohydrate
     脫水 - tuōshuǐ - to dehydrate; dehydration
     水中毒 - shuǐzhōngdú - water intoxication; water poisoning
     雙氧水 - shuāngyǎngshuǐ, lit=water with two oxygen (atoms) - hydrogen peroxide
2. liquid; potion; juice
     口水 - kǒushuǐ - saliva
     汗水 - hànshuǐ - sweat
     羊水 - yángshuǐ - amniotic fluid
     香水 - xiāngshuǐ - perfume
     眼藥水 - yǎnyàoshuǐ - eyedrop
3. (colloquial, mainly, Singapore, Malaysia) Synonym of 飲料 (beverage)
     要 叫 什麼 水？ (Yào jiào shénme shuǐ?) - What beverage do you want to order?
     欲 叫 什sím物 水？ (Beh kiò sím-mi̍h chúi?) - What beverage do you want to order?, MN
4. (archaic) river
     漢水 - Hànshuǐ - the Han River
5. body of water
     水路 - shuǐlù - waterway
     三 面 環 水 (sān miàn huán shuǐ) - to be surrounded by (bodies of) water on three sides
6. flood
     發水 - fāshuǐ - to flood
7. additional cost or income
8. (dialectal) rain
9. (Cantonese) money
     磅水 - bong6 seoi2 - to pay, C
     掠loek6-1水 - loek6-1 seoi2 - to obtain money dishonestly, C
10. (Cantonese) hundred dollars
     三 嚿 水 - saam1 gau6 seoi2 - three hundred dollars, C
11. (Cantonese) source of revenue
12. (Cantonese) to fool; to deceive; to misguide
13. to swim
     水性 - shuǐxìng - swimming ability
14. (colloquial) lacking substance or power; worthless
     這裡 的 大學 太 水 了。 (Zhèlǐ de dàxué tài shuǐ le.) - The universities here are too weak.
15. Short for 划水, gloss=to shirk; to slack off
16. one of the five elements of Wu Xing (五行)
17. (colloquial) Classifier for the number of times clothing was washed.
18. Sui people
     水書 - shuǐshū - Shuishu (the traditional writing system of the Sui people)
19. Variant of 媠
每 měi 1. (obsolete) lush
2. every; each
     每日 - every day; daily
     每次 - every time
3. every time; each time
4. often; frequently

绵 ⇨ 纟 + 帛
Component Pinyin Meanings
纟 1. silk
2. Simplified form of 糹
帛 bó 1. silks; fabrics
2. wealth; property

每 ⇨ + 母
Component Pinyin Meanings
1.
毋 wú 1. (literary) do not, don't
2. (literary or Hakka, Hokkien) not
     我 毋 捌字。 - I'm illiterate (literally: I don't know characters), MN
3. (literary) Alternative form of 無 (to not have)

帛 ⇨ 白 + 巾
Component Pinyin Meanings
白 bái, bó 1. white
     白色 (báisè) - white color
     白茶 (báichá) - white tea
2. clear; easy to understand
     明白bai (míngbai) - clear, obvious
     淺白 (qiǎnbái) - simple
3. clear; pure; plain; blank
     白紙 (báizhǐ) - a blank sheet of paper
     白卷 (báijuǎn) - blank exam paper
     白水 (báishuǐ) - plain water
     白粥 (báizhōu) - plain congee
4. bright; well-lit
5. eminent; prominent
6. vernacular
     白話 (báihuà) - spoken language
7. dialect
     蘇白 (sūbái) - Suzhou dialect
     京白 (jīngbái) - Beijing dialect
8. Short for 白讀 (gloss=colloquial reading)
9. reactionary; anticommunist
     白軍 (báijūn) - The White army
     白區 (báiqū) - The White area
     白色恐怖 (báisèkǒngbù) - the White terror
10. in vain; for nothing
     我們 沒有 白 忙。 - Our efforts were not in vain.
     她 白 等 了。 - She waited in vain.
     他們 的 血 沒有 白 流。 (Tāmen de xuè méiyǒu bái liú.) - Their blood was not shed in vain.
     所有 的 工作 都 白 做 了。 (Suǒyǒu de gōngzuò dōu bái zuò le.) - All the work has been done for nothing.
     白 來 一趟 (bái lái yītàng) - to come in vain; to come for nothing
     白給 的 東西xi (báigěi de dōngxi) - something given for nothing
11. free of charge; gratuitous; gratis
     你 可以 白 拿走 這 些 蘋果。 (Nǐ kěyǐ bái názǒu zhè xiē píngguǒ.) - You can have these apples for free.
12. to stare coldly; to stare at someone with the white of the eyes
     她 生氣 地de 白 了 他 一眼。 (Tā shēngqì de bái le tā yīyǎn.) - She gave him an angry stare.
13. to explain; to present; to state
     自白 (zìbái) - explain oneself, confess
     開場白 (kāichǎngbái) - preamble
     表白 (biǎobái) - to explain oneself
     辯白 (biànbái) - to explain, to defend oneself
14. to mispronounce or wrongly write a character
     我 老是 寫 白 字 讀破句。 (Wǒ lǎoshì xiě bái zì dúpòjù.) - I always mispronounce words and break my sentences up in the wrong places.
     我 把 這 字 念 白 了。 (Wǒ bǎ zhè zì niàn bái le.) - I've mispronounced the character.
15. spoken lines
     念白 (niànbái) - spoken parts of a Chinese opera
     道白 (dàobái) - spoken parts of a Chinese opera
     獨白 (dúbái) - monologue
     對白 (duìbái) - dialogue
16. funeral
     紅白喜事 (hóngbáixǐshì) - weddings and funerals
17. . Bai
     白 崇-禧 (Bái Chóngxǐ) - Bai Chongxi
18. Bai, an ethnic group living primarily in Yunnan, China
巾 jīn 1. turban
2. a square item of cloth; towel; kerchief
3. (historical) piece of clothing worn on the head in China