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Chinese symbol for “coastguard”

海岸警卫队
hǎi àn jǐng wèi duì
Traditional: 海岸警衛隊
coastguard

The closest CC-CEDICT match for coastguard is 海岸警卫队 (hǎi àn jǐng wèi duì), defined as: coastguard.

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Characters and stroke order

海 hǎi
sea, ocean; maritime
radical 85 ⽔ · 10 strokes
岸 àn
beach, coast, shore
radical 46 ⼭ · 8 strokes
警 jǐng
to guard, to watch; alarm, alert
radical 149 ⾔ · 19 strokes
卫 wèi
to guard, to protect, to defend
radical 26 ⼙ · 3 strokes
队 duì
team, group, band, army unit; measure word for groups of people
radical 170 ⾩ · 5 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 海岸警卫队.

WordPinyinMeaning
海外hǎi wàioverseas; abroad
海军 (海軍)hǎi jūnnavy
海洋hǎi yángocean
海上hǎi shàngmaritime
沿海yán hǎicoastal
海岸hǎi àncoastal; seacoast
两岸 (兩岸)liǎng ànbilateral; both shores
沿岸yán àncoastal area; littoral or riparian
警察jǐng chápolice; police officer
卫生 (衛生)wèi shēnghygienic; sanitary; hygiene; sanitation
军队 (軍隊)jūn duìarmed forces; troops; measure word: 支 (zhī)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.