Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hai (Chinese: 海; pinyin: Hǎi) is a Chinese surname meaning "ocean."According to a 2013 study, it was the 293rd most common surname, being shared by 197,000 people or 0.015% of the population, with the province with the most people being Ningxia.
The word hai can also mean total failure, as in the phrase hai1 saai3 (㞓晒). The Chinese character 晒, one of whose meanings is similar to the English "bask", functions in Cantonese as the verbal particle for the perfective aspect. [8]
Haigui (simplified Chinese: 海归; traditional Chinese: 海 歸; pinyin: hǎiguī) is a Chinese language slang term for Chinese nationals who have returned to mainland China after having studied abroad. [1] The term is a pun on the homophonic hǎiguī (simplified Chinese: 海龟; traditional Chinese: 海 龜) meaning "sea turtle".
The two Chinese characters in the city's name are 上 (shàng /zaon, "upon") and 海 (hǎi /hé, "sea"), together meaning "On the Sea." The earliest occurrence of this name dates from the 11th-century Song dynasty , when there was already a river confluence and a town with this name in the area.
Liu Haichan is known by many names. Liu 劉 is a common Chinese family name, notably for the Han dynasty imperial family. Haichan combines hǎi 海 "sea; ocean; huge group (of people/things)" and chán 蟾 "toad", used in the compound chánchú 蟾蜍 (蟾諸 or 詹諸) "toad; fabled toad in the moon".
"Hai (海)" means the sea in Chinese inscribed from the name of the host city, and "Bao (宝,寶)" means the treasure. Its figure is in the shape of the Chinese character "Ren (人)" (meaning human). Haibao was produced by Taiwanese designer Wu Yong-jian and adopted as the official mascot of the World Expo on December 18, 2007. He was selected ...
Haipai (Chinese: 海派, Shanghainese: hepha, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [hē̞pʰä́] ; literally "[Shang]hai style") refers to the avant-garde but unique "East Meets West" culture from Shanghai in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is a part of the culture of Shanghai.
Haiwei is the Pinyin romanisation of various Chinese given names (e.g. Chinese: 海威; pinyin: Hǎiwēi; or Chinese: 海偉; pinyin: Hǎiwěi).These names are written with various Chinese characters, and may have differences in tone, so neither their pronunciation nor their meaning is identical.