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Chinese
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ocean; sea
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inside; inner; internal inside; inner; internal; within; interior |
| trad. (海內)
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海
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內
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| simp. (海内)
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海
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内
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| anagram
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內海／内海
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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海
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內
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| Reading #
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1/1
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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hǎi
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nèi
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ xojX ›
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‹ nwojH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*m̥ˁəʔ/ (dialect *m̥ˁ- > x-)
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/*nˁp-s/
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| English
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sea
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inside
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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海
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內
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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9283
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9381
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Phonetic
component
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母
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內
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Rime
group
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之
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內
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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海
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内
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Old
Chinese
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/*hmlɯːʔ/
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/*nuːbs/
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Noun
海內
- (literary) within China; the territory within the Four Seas (that were thought to make up the borders of ancient China)
海內之地方千里者九，齊集有其一。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
海内之地方千里者九，齐集有其一。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
- Hǎinèi zhī dì fāng qiān lǐ zhě jiǔ, Qí jí yǒu qí yī.
- The territory within the four seas embraces nine divisions, each of a thousand li square. All Qi together is but one of them.
漢興，海內為一。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
汉兴，海内为一。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
- Hàn xīng, hǎinèi wéi yī.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
海內存知己，天涯若比鄰。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
海内存知己，天涯若比邻。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: c. 650 – 676, Wang Bo, 送杜少府之任蜀州 (Seeing off Vice-prefect Du on the occasion of his appointment to the state of Shu)
- Hǎinèi cún zhījǐ, tiānyá ruò bìlín.
- When one has a close friend in this world, the far ends of heaven are like next door.
Synonyms
- (the world): 天下 (tiānxià)
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