See 四海 on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "In Ancient China, it was thought that China was surrounded by ocean on all four sides. Eventually, this phrase came to mean \"all four directions\" or \"everywhere.\"",
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"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "the four seas",
"pos": "noun",
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"word": "五洲四海"
},
{
"roman": "wǔhúsìhǎi",
"word": "五湖四海"
},
{
"word": "名揚四海"
},
{
"word": "名扬四海"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎi yījiā",
"word": "四海一家"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōngdì",
"word": "四海之內皆兄弟"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōngdì",
"word": "四海之内皆兄弟"
},
{
"word": "四海承風"
},
{
"word": "四海承风"
},
{
"word": "四海昇平"
},
{
"word": "四海升平"
},
{
"word": "四海歸心"
},
{
"word": "四海归心"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎiwéijiā",
"word": "四海為家"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎiwéijiā",
"word": "四海为家"
},
{
"word": "四海稱臣"
},
{
"word": "四海称臣"
},
{
"word": "四海鼎沸"
},
{
"roman": "fàng zhī sìhǎi ér jiē zhǔn",
"word": "放之四海而皆準"
},
{
"roman": "fàng zhī sìhǎi ér jiē zhǔn",
"word": "放之四海而皆准"
},
{
"word": "目空四海"
},
{
"word": "眼空四海"
},
{
"word": "縱橫四海"
},
{
"word": "纵横四海"
}
],
"glosses": [
"the world; the whole world"
],
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"world",
"world"
],
[
"whole",
"whole"
]
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"(literary, figurative) the world; the whole world"
],
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"roman": "shì",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "世"
},
{
"roman": "shìjiè",
"word": "世界"
},
{
"roman": "qūyǔ",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "區宇"
},
{
"roman": "qūyǔ",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "区宇"
},
{
"roman": "sìguó",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "四國"
},
{
"roman": "sìguó",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "四国"
},
{
"roman": "yùzhōng",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "域中"
},
{
"roman": "tiānxià",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "天下"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "天跤下"
},
{
"roman": "yǔnèi",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "宇內"
},
{
"roman": "yǔnèi",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "宇内"
},
{
"roman": "bóhǎi",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "薄海"
}
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"literary"
]
}
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"zh-pron": "sìhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
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"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
},
{
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"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
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},
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},
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},
{
"tags": [
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"Teochew"
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"zh-pron": "si³ hai²"
},
{
"zh-pron": "¹sy₅-he₃"
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{
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},
{
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"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
},
{
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"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ssŭ⁴-hai³"
},
{
"tags": [
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"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sz̀-hǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Mandarin",
"standard"
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"zh-pron": "syhhae"
},
{
"tags": [
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"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "сыхай"
},
{
"tags": [
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"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "syxaj"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
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},
{
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"Yale"
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"zh-pron": "sei hói"
},
{
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"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
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],
"zh-pron": "séi³ hoi²"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/",
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},
{
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"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "si-hói"
},
{
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"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi^"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "hoiˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hagfa-Pinyim",
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi⁴ hoi³"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/",
"tags": [
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"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Sixian"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "suo'hae"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Min-Nan"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
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"Min-Nan",
"Xiamen",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"POJ",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "sì hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Teochew"
]
},
{
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"Northern",
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "¹sy₅-he₃"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
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],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "sy^去 he^上"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁴⁴ he/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Suzhou",
"Wu"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/"
},
{
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"word": "四海"
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"etymology_text": "In Ancient China, it was thought that China was surrounded by ocean on all four sides. Eventually, this phrase came to mean \"all four directions\" or \"everywhere.\"",
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"raw_glosses": [
"(Suzhounese) generous; magnanimous"
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"synonyms": [
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"roman": "dàfāng",
"word": "大方"
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{
"roman": "kāngkǎi",
"word": "慷慨"
},
{
"tags": [
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"word": "大派"
},
{
"word": "冇手"
},
{
"word": "看手"
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{
"word": "闊手"
},
{
"word": "阔手"
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{
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"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
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{
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"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
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},
{
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"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
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"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
},
{
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"Teochew"
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"zh-pron": "sìhhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ssŭ⁴-hai³"
},
{
"tags": [
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"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sz̀-hǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
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"standard"
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},
{
"tags": [
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"Palladius",
"standard"
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"zh-pron": "сыхай"
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{
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"standard"
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"zh-pron": "syxaj"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
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"Sinological-IPA",
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{
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"Yale"
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"zh-pron": "sei hói"
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{
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"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "séi³ hoi²"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/",
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"Sinological-IPA"
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{
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"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
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"zh-pron": "si-hói"
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{
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"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
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"zh-pron": "xi^"
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{
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"Miaoli",
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"zh-pron": "hoiˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi⁴ hoi³"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/",
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"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Sixian"
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{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/",
"tags": [
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"Min-Nan",
"Quanzhou"
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},
{
"tags": [
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"Min-Nan",
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"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
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{
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"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "suo'hae"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Min-Nan"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
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"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
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"Min-Nan",
"Xiamen",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
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"POJ",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "sì hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/",
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"Sinological-IPA",
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"Suzhou",
"Wu"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
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{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/"
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"the four major seas where the four Dragon Kings reign"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "五洲四海"
},
{
"roman": "wǔhúsìhǎi",
"word": "五湖四海"
},
{
"word": "名揚四海"
},
{
"word": "名扬四海"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎi yījiā",
"word": "四海一家"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōngdì",
"word": "四海之內皆兄弟"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎi zhī nèi jiē xiōngdì",
"word": "四海之内皆兄弟"
},
{
"word": "四海承風"
},
{
"word": "四海承风"
},
{
"word": "四海昇平"
},
{
"word": "四海升平"
},
{
"word": "四海歸心"
},
{
"word": "四海归心"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎiwéijiā",
"word": "四海為家"
},
{
"roman": "sìhǎiwéijiā",
"word": "四海为家"
},
{
"word": "四海稱臣"
},
{
"word": "四海称臣"
},
{
"word": "四海鼎沸"
},
{
"roman": "fàng zhī sìhǎi ér jiē zhǔn",
"word": "放之四海而皆準"
},
{
"roman": "fàng zhī sìhǎi ér jiē zhǔn",
"word": "放之四海而皆准"
},
{
"word": "目空四海"
},
{
"word": "眼空四海"
},
{
"word": "縱橫四海"
},
{
"word": "纵横四海"
}
],
"etymology_text": "In Ancient China, it was thought that China was surrounded by ocean on all four sides. Eventually, this phrase came to mean \"all four directions\" or \"everywhere.\"",
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},
"expansion": "四海",
"name": "head"
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],
"lang": "Chinese",
"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "the four seas",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Chinese literary terms"
],
"glosses": [
"the world; the whole world"
],
"links": [
[
"world",
"world"
],
[
"whole",
"whole"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(literary, figurative) the world; the whole world"
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "si-hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Peng'im",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "si³ hai²"
},
{
"zh-pron": "¹sy₅-he₃"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ssŭ⁴-hai³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sz̀-hǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "syhhae"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "сыхай"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "syxaj"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "sei hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "séi³ hoi²"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "si-hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi^"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "hoiˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hagfa-Pinyim",
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi⁴ hoi³"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/",
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Sixian"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "suo'hae"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Min-Nan"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Xiamen",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"POJ",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "sì hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Teochew"
]
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"Wugniu"
],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "¹sy₅-he₃"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"MiniDict"
],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "sy^去 he^上"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁴⁴ he/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Suzhou",
"Wu"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁴⁴ he/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
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"roman": "shì",
"tags": [
"in-compounds",
"literary"
],
"word": "世"
},
{
"roman": "shìjiè",
"word": "世界"
},
{
"roman": "qūyǔ",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "區宇"
},
{
"roman": "qūyǔ",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "区宇"
},
{
"roman": "sìguó",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "四國"
},
{
"roman": "sìguó",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "四国"
},
{
"roman": "yùzhōng",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "域中"
},
{
"roman": "tiānxià",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "天下"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "天跤下"
},
{
"roman": "yǔnèi",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "宇內"
},
{
"roman": "yǔnèi",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "宇内"
},
{
"roman": "bóhǎi",
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"literary"
],
"word": "薄海"
}
],
"word": "四海"
}
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"Pages with entries",
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"vi:Seas",
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"etymology_text": "In Ancient China, it was thought that China was surrounded by ocean on all four sides. Eventually, this phrase came to mean \"all four directions\" or \"everywhere.\"",
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"lang_code": "zh",
"literal_meaning": "the four seas",
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],
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],
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]
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"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Jyutping"
],
"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "si-hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"POJ"
],
"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Peng'im",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "si³ hai²"
},
{
"zh-pron": "¹sy₅-he₃"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hanyu-Pinyin",
"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"bopomofo",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ㄙˋ ㄏㄞˇ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Tongyong-Pinyin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sìhhǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Wade-Giles",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "ssŭ⁴-hai³"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Yale",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "sz̀-hǎi"
},
{
"tags": [
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"Mandarin",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "syhhae"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "сыхай"
},
{
"tags": [
"Mandarin",
"Palladius",
"standard"
],
"zh-pron": "syxaj"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/",
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"Sinological-IPA",
"standard"
]
},
{
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"Yale"
],
"zh-pron": "sei hói"
},
{
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"Pinyin"
],
"zh-pron": "sei³ hoi²"
},
{
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Guangdong-Romanization"
],
"zh-pron": "séi³ hoi²"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/",
"tags": [
"Cantonese",
"Sinological-IPA"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Phak-fa-su",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "si-hói"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi^"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Hakka-Romanization-System",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "hoiˋ"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hagfa-Pinyim",
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sixian"
],
"zh-pron": "xi⁴ hoi³"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/",
"tags": [
"Hakka",
"Miaoli",
"Neipu",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Sixian"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sìr-hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Quanzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Tai-lo"
],
"zh-pron": "sù-hái"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Phofsit-Daibuun"
],
"zh-pron": "suo'hae"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Kaohsiung",
"Min-Nan"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Taipei"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/",
"tags": [
"Hokkien",
"Min-Nan",
"Xiamen",
"Zhangzhou"
]
},
{
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"POJ",
"Teochew"
],
"zh-pron": "sì hái"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/",
"tags": [
"Min-Nan",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Teochew"
]
},
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"Northern",
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "¹sy₅-he₃"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"MiniDict"
],
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Wu"
],
"zh-pron": "sy^去 he^上"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁴⁴ he/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"Sinological-IPA",
"Suzhou",
"Wu"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁵¹ xaɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sei̯³³ hɔːi̯³⁵/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si⁵⁵ hoi̯³¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sɯ⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ hai⁵⁵⁴/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁴¹ hai⁴¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su¹¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/su²¹⁻⁵³ hai⁵³/"
},
{
"ipa": "/si²¹³⁻⁵⁵ hai⁵²⁻²¹/"
},
{
"ipa": "/sz̩⁴⁴ he/"
}
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"roman": "dàfāng",
"word": "大方"
},
{
"roman": "kāngkǎi",
"word": "慷慨"
},
{
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "大派"
},
{
"word": "冇手"
},
{
"word": "看手"
},
{
"word": "闊手"
},
{
"word": "阔手"
}
],
"word": "四海"
}
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"categories": [
"Vietnamese Chữ Hán"
],
"glosses": [
"chữ Hán form of tứ hải.",
"the world"
],
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"chữ Hán#Vietnamese"
],
[
"tứ hải",
"tứ hải#Vietnamese:_四海"
],
[
"world",
"world"
]
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],
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"chữ Hán form of tứ hải.",
"the four major seas where the four Dragon Kings reign"
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[
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"Chinese"
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[
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[
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"four"
],
[
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"chữ Hán form of tứ hải.",
"(Chinese mythology) the four major seas where the four Dragon Kings reign"
],
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"Chinese"
],
"topics": [
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"mysticism",
"mythology",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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}
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"title": "四海",
"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Suzhounese",
"path": [
"四海"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "四海",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Suzhounese",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.