Zài Jiāzhōu hǎi'àn, wǒmen kàndào le yì qún kě'ài de hǎitǎ.
On the California coast, we saw a group of cute sea otters.
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memory
海 (sea) + 獭 (otter) — exactly 'sea otter'. The character 獭 has the dog/animal radical 犭 on the left, marking it as an animal. Compare 水獭 (river otter, freshwater otter).
culture
Sea otters are widely loved in Chinese-language internet culture for their habit of holding hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart — videos of this behavior regularly go viral on Weibo and Douyin tagged 海獭手牵手.
