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Hi, I have some easy Chinese words for you. Hi means sea in Chinese (Mandarin). I think of the high sea.
Haiku, the poetry, is also the name of a city in China.
Haikou
The hanzi characters comprising the city's name, 海口, mean ocean/sea and mouth/port, respectively. Therefore, the name "Haikou" is also a word for "seaport" - similar to 'Portsmouth', meaning port's mouth, in England.
Shanghai
The two Chinese characters in the city's name are 上 (shàng/zan, "upon") and 海 (hǎi/hae, "sea"), together meaning "Upon the Sea".
Beijing
The name Beijing, means "Northern Capital" (from the Chi>nglishnese characters 北 for north and 京 for capital).
English - Chinese
capital - jing
east -东 Dōng
good - how
mountain - shan
mouth or port - kou
north - 北 Běi
sea - hai
south - 南 Nán
upon - shang/zan
You - ni
Chinese
bei - north
dong - east
hai - sea
how - good
jing - capital
kou - mouth or port
Nán - south
ni - you
shan - mountain
Shang/zan - upon
Useful Websites (alphabetically)
chineasy
person
https://translate.google.com/
wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters
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