填海 (tin4 hoi2) — to reclaim land from the sea in Cantonese | HKDictionary

tinˎ₄填hoiˊ²海

Mandarin Pinyin: tian2 hai3

Meaning of 填海

nounto reclaim land from the sea

Characters in 填海

fill up (a vacancy); make up (a deficiency)

a Chinese family name

Words Containing 填海

攞去填海lo2 heoi3 tin4 hoi2

describes something or someone that is so useless that they should be just dumped into the sea [colloquial]

填海區tin4 hoi2 keoi1

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