地中海

Dìzhōnghǎi
noun #14,555

Meanings

  1. 1 Mediterranean Sea
  2. 2 (colloquial) bald crown; male pattern baldness

Examples

Tāmen zài Dìzhōnghǎi yán'àn dùjià.
They vacationed along the Mediterranean coast.
Tā cái sānshí duō suì, tóudǐng jiù kāishǐ dìzhōnghǎi le.
He's only in his thirties and already getting a bald spot on top.

Tips

memory
地中海 literally means 'sea in the middle of the land' — the Mediterranean is surrounded by Europe, Africa, and Asia. The slang meaning (bald crown) comes from the visual similarity: a ring of hair around a bare patch looks like land surrounding a sea.

Stroke Order

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